Ursula k le guin biography of michael

In she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters , and in joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

Charles le guin

Ursula Kroeber was born in and grew up in Berkeley, California. She attended Radcliffe College and did graduate work at Columbia University. She married historian Charles A. Le Guin, in Paris in ; they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in , and had three children and four grandchildren. Le Guin died peacefully in her home in January, Few American writers have done work of such high quality in so many forms.

Her fantasy novel A Wizard of Earthsea , the first in a related group of six books and one short story, has sold millions of copies worldwide. In , she was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and in she joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America. Harold Bloom includes her among his list of classic American writers.

The documentary Worlds of Ursula K. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own. I drew a picture of a Catwing. About Ursula K. Le Guin.