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

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

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2025

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

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2025

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

It was Urrea’s break: Le Guin published the story in an anthology, and the two formed a lasting connection.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023

I think again and again of a story we read last year by Ursula Le Guin about a utopian city whose bliss can only exist because of its one horrifying atrocity.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed