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Ursula Le Guin
Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (ûr´sələ krō´bər lə gwĬn´), 1929–, American writer, b. Berkeley, Calif.; daughter of anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Possessing a keen eye for physical and cultural detail, she uses science fiction to explore contemporary society. A prolific writer of both adult and children's fiction, she gained fame beginning in the 1960s with her series of books about beings from Hain, including Rocannon's World (1966), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), The Dispossessed (1974), and The Telling (2000). She is also known for her cycle of Earthsea books, such as A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), Tehanu (1990), and Tales from Earthsea (2001). Le Guin is also an essayist and poet.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright© 2012, The Columbia University Press.Selected full-text books and articles on this topic at Questia
The Underestimation of Politics in Green Utopias: The Description of Politics in Huxley's Island, le Guin's the Dispossessed, and Callenbach's Ecotopia
Mathisen, Werner Christie. Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 2001
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Mathisen, Werner Christie. Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 2001
Cultural Anthropology and Rituals of Exchange in Ursula K. le Guin's 'Earthsea.'
Senior, W. A. Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 29, No. 4, December 1996
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Senior, W. A. Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 29, No. 4, December 1996