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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Example Sentences

Le Guin’s world-building and audacious ideas make many other novels feel two-dimensional.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he quoted science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin on the eventual inevitability of once-unimaginable change.

From Salon

Accepting an award from the National Book Foundation, Le Guin said that "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."

From Salon

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

From Slate

This was particularly notable in a reading of the libretto for a proposed new opera by Ted Hearn, one of our most politically outspoken composers, based on Ursula K Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed.”

From Los Angeles Times