Ursula K. Le Guin Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 6 pages of information about the life of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 6 pages of information about the life of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) created fantastic worlds in which the author's strong-willed, feminist protagonists have increasingly taken center stage.

An understanding of both anthropology and varied cultures informed the highly acclaimed science fiction writing of Ursula K. Le Guin. In such books as the Earthsea Trilogy, The Lathe of Heaven, and The Left Hand of Darkness, she created what Nancy Jesser in Feminist Writers called "an anthropology of the future, imagining whole cultural systems and conflicts." Eschewing the "pulp" aspects of most science-fiction--brawny male heroes, compliant women, and over-the-top technology as both cause and solution to the world's problems--Le Guin was known for skillfully telling a story containing many layers of meaning beneath its calm exterior. Her Earthsea novels have been cited by several reviewers as characteristic of her work; an essayist in Science Fiction Writers commented that, as it was "constrained neither by realistic...

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