09/14/2026
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/ Ursula Le Guin /
"The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women."
"Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over 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 she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Having earned a master's degree in French, Le Guin began doctoral studies but abandoned these after her marriage in 1953 to historian Charles Le Guin."
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Born: Ursula Kroeber, October 21, 1929, Berkeley, California, U.S.
Died: January 22, 2018, Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation: Author
Education: Radcliffe College (BA), Columbia University (MA)
Period: c. 1959 – 2018
Notable works: Earthsea (1964–2018), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), The Dispossessed (1974)
Ursula K. Le Guin. Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (ed. Grove Press, 1997)