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 ...

"Grieving … is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark your calendar for 2026. That’s when the first and only authorized biography of the late Portland literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin is scheduled to be published by Virago, a British publisher that ...

Ursula K. Le Guin’s long journey to the status of literary titan is not quite complete, despite the author’s death on Monday at the age of 88. It will take the world a little while yet to reckon with ...

Over dinner a few months ago with some musician and writer friends outside of Portland, a conversation about songwriting turned into a conversation about poetry, which led me to ask two of the writers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ursula K. Le Guin, a prolific novelist best known for the Earthsea series and The Left Hand of Darkness, died Monday at the age of 88. Across more than 20 novels and scores of short stories, Le Guin ...

Acclaimed science-fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin died Monday in her hometown of Portland, Ore., her agent confirmed. Le Guin was 88. Although best known for her science fiction — particularly the ...

It’s less than an hour since the news broke that Ursula K. Le Guin has died and right now my Twitter feed, populated as it is with science fiction and fantasy writers, editors and fans, is a single, ...