Alfred L. Kroeber is Ursula K. Le Guin's father.
Theodora Kroeber is Ursula K. Le Guin's mother.
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Ursula K. Le Guin and Charles A. Le Guin married on December 22, 1953.
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"...[I]t's simply that I came on the 'Tao te Ching'...and began reading it. It was one of the books in our house when I was a kid. And it answered my need."
"...Philip K. Dick is one of the science fiction writers who I think is a really good American novelist. They never compare him to Fitzgerald; they compare him to other science fiction writers. There is where there's a barrier that needs to be crossed."
"I think magical realism is one of the better names not only for what Garcia Marquez and other South American writers do, but for what a lot of us are doing. I think of Italo Calvino....I think some of what I write and some of what other science fiction and fantasy writers in America and England write is magical realism. I think it's a worldwide movement, a way of trying to write about the modern world using literary devices that are shifty and tricky and surprising enough that they catch how v more...
"[T]he fad now is to have the hero be a girl, armed to the boobs with all sorts of weapons. It's extremely stupid--not real gender reversal, but kind of girls acting like men. They tend to be sexually very promiscuous, like guys. It's a guy's fantasy of a busty woman hero slashing and killing people. It's a change and it isn't any worse, but I don't know that it's much better."
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Born in Berkeley, California to an anthropologist father and a writer mother, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote her first story at the age of 9. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 and received an M.A. from Columbia in 1952. The next year, she met her future husband, Charles A. Le Guin, while on the Queen Mary passenger liner en route to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship--they married in December of 1953. While she is known as an author of science fiction, fantasy, and children's books, Le Guin's more...
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10/21/1929 Berkeley, Northern California, California, Pacific States, Western States, United States,
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A truly exceptional book. To call it simple is unfair, but is almost sparse. At the same time it can transport you to the world like few books can. I cannot believe I didn't read this years ago.