[This entry was updated by Nancy Barendse (Charleston Southern University) from her update in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, of the entry by Brian Attebery (College of Idaho) in DLB 8: Twentieth-Century American Science...

Ursula K. Le Guin is a writer of great versatility and power, acclaimed for her science fiction, fantasy, and children's literature. All her fiction is distinguished by careful craftsmanship, a limpid prose style, realistic detail in the creation of imag...

In a decade and a half, since Ursula K. LeGuin's first novel appeared as one half of an Ace Double paperback, she has become one of the most important writers in the field of science fiction. Le Guin writes the sort of stories science-fiction critics hav...

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The day before Michael Shirley went to camp for the first time, his mother took him downtown to the Salvation Army thrift store. She bought him a cardboard suitcase and "the first pair of pajamas I ever owned." The pajamas and the suitcase...

So what if I had no sense of self? I anchored myself to my husband, a man headed to medical school, whose determination to help others, no matter the sacrifice, shed a charitable light on me. When my internist asked if I knew that marrying...

North Dakota needs its native sons and daughters _ and it's willing to admit it.Tired of a years-long talent suck, the state plans a unique job fair in Chicago and another in Colorado to lure young professionals back to their home state to take advantage...