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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Biography

Name: Ursula K. Le Guin
Birth Date: October 21, 1929
Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer, teacher

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Biography of Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
17,529 words, approx. 58 pages
[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...
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Biography of Ursula K. Le Guin
17,122 words, approx. 57 pages
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...
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Biography of Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
12,913 words, approx. 43 pages
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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Le Guin, Ursula K. (1929—) Summary
1,036 words, approx. 4 pages
In the introduction to Joe De Bolt's collection of essays about Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry N. Malzberg claims that "Le Guin is probably the first writer to emerge solely within the confines of the genres of speculative fiction to win...
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Ursula K. Le Guin Information
3,453 words, approx. 12 pages
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin [/ˈɝsjulə ˈkɹoʊbɚ ləˈgwɪn/] (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction genres. She was...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Karla Armbruster
11,286 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Armbruster considers the state of ecofeminist literary criticism and offers a poststructuralist ecofeminist reading of Le Guin's “Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight.”
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Critical Essay by Heinz Tschachler
6,617 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Tschachler regards the four novellas of Four Ways to Forgiveness as statements on the evolution in American literature toward reconsideration of American values and conditions.
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Critical Essay by Elyce Rae Helford
5,895 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Helford examines Le Guin's “Buffalo Gals Won't You Come out Tonight,” finding it a “highly problematic cultural text, embedded in Anglo-Native American struggles over language, meaning, and culture; rich in the contradictions of the white, mainstream worldview through which it was written.”
 
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Ursula Le Guin
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Essay shows how Ursula Le Guin impresses us on the passage when Sparrowhawk confronts the Dragons in "A Wizard of Earth Sea."


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