Author
Ursula K. Le Guin
1929–2018
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
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Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
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A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974
The ones who walk away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1993
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972
The Word for World is Forest
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975
Catwings
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1988
Again, Dangerous Visions
Harlan Ellison, John Heidenry & others, 1967
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2001
The Language of the Night
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1979
Rocannon's World
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1966
Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4)
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1990
The Earthsea quartet
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1977
Always Coming Home
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1985
The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2001
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2008
Dancing at the Edge of the World
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1989
Steering the Craft
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2015
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The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
Robert Silverberg, H. L. Gold & others, 1998
Lao Tzu
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1997
City of Illusions
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1967
Other Worlds Than These
John Joseph Adams, Lev Grossman & others, 2012
The Eye of the Heron
Ursula K. Le Guin & Virginia Kidd, 1980
The Telling
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2000
Catwings return
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1989
Alien Contact
Marty Halpern, Neil Gaiman & others, 2011
Worlds of Exile and Illusion
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1996
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1976
Galaxy
Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & others, 1980
The Beginning Place
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1980
The Compass Rose
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1982
The Birthday of the World
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2002
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
Sumner Braunstein, Rudolfo A. Anaya & others, 1991
The Earthsea Trilogy
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1977
The Wave in the Mind
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2000
Powers
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2007
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer & others, 1989
The Books of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2018
The Wild Girls
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2011
The Hugo Winners, Volume Three
Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber & others, 1977
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2017
Changing planes
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003
Gifts
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004
The New Hugo winners, Volume II
Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny & others, 1991
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1995
Reading Ursula K. Le Guin
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