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Le Guin

American  
[luh-gwin] / ləˈgwɪn /
Or LeGuin

noun

  1. Ursula K(roeber), 1929–2018, U.S. science fiction writer, novelist, and poet (daughter of Alfred Louis Kroeber).


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Le Guin had died the day before he sent it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

“What’s the function of a galaxy?” the speculative fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin once asked.

From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2025

I remember I read Ursula K. Le Guin when I was a kid and loved her books, but they were definitely science fiction and fantasy.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2023

In her 2009 essay “On the Frontier,” Ursula K. Le Guin took stock of an abstraction endemic to both the American West, where she was raised, and her chosen genre of science fiction.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

I could retell it, but nothing like Le Guin.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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