The fantasy and science fiction writer found her way into her invented worlds by making maps and then mentally exploring them.

Some lesser-known works by Oregon literary great Ursula K. Le Guin will be republished this week by the Library of America. Le Guin first wrote a poem in the Orsinian language published in 1959. Her ...

Fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin died in her Portland home Monday. She was 88. Her son confirmed her death to the New York Times. He did not provide a cause of death but said her health had been ...

Acclaimed and adored American author Ursula K Le Guin has died at age 88. The New York Times confirmed Le Guin’s passing when speaking with her son Theo Downes-Le Guin. He did not disclose the exact ...

Before Donald Trump ever uttered a word about building a wall, author Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away on Tuesday, wrote of a world that had built one—a wall that divided two ideologies: Like all ...

In 1966, a New York publisher took a chance and released a book by an unknown homemaker and mother living clear across the country in Oregon. “Mrs. Le Guin,” as the editors of Ace Books called her in ...

The world has lost a celestial talent in Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away yesterday at the age of 88. The beloved author was mainly known for her science fiction and fantasy writing, but she had ...

When I’m asked by a Le Guin neophyte where to start, I rarely recommend The Dispossessed. I wouldn’t urge a stranger to leap into the deep end of a pool. Though the novel delicately explores matters ...

Originally published as “Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds” in the Winter 2019 issue of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Places, real and ...

Update: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber was named winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for “The House of Rust” on Friday night. “Scene after scene is gleaming, textured, utterly devoid ...