Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) published twenty-two novels and seven poetry collections, as well as short story collections, books for children and young adults, screenplays, and essays, though she remains best known as America’s greatest science fiction writer. Her first major work in the genre, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), is still in print. Among her best-known fantasy works are the six Books of Earthsea, including The Farthest Shore, winner of the National Book Award. One of the few women to become a Grandmaster of Science Fiction, she also received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014.
Photograph by Martin Wood Kolish.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- All Saints All Souls, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2018–2019
- The Fine Arts and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2018
- The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and Imagination , a review or criticism, in Spring 2013
- Lavinia, a review or criticism, in Fall 2009