Le Guin, a graduate of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, received his Master's degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and his Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta. [6] Academic and author Joyce Carol Oates highlighted Le Guin's "outspoken sense of justice, decency, and common sense", and called her "one of the great American writers and a visionary artist whose work will long endure". Copyright, Special Collections & University Archives. January 24, 2018. This interview was held on February 21, 2019, at the Portland State University Library. [19] A second daughter, Caroline, was born in 1959. RETROSPEC She won eight Hugo Awards from twenty-six nominations, and six Nebula Awards from eighteen nominations, including four Nebula Awards for Best Novel from six nominations, more than any other writer. He and Thomas E. Mullen (Ph.D. 1959) have remained good friends. [16] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Renaissance French and Italian literature from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1951, and graduated as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Oral History Commons, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," one of Le Guin's best known and frequently anthologized stories, is a Jamesian fable that takes its name from the road sign for Salem, Oregon, read backwards. Dr. Dr. [49], Le Guin's next two books brought her sudden and widespread critical acclaim. PORTLAND, Ore. Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, has died at 88. The world-famous author was heralded as a major female voice in science fiction, but her work transcended the genre. [171] Scholar Warren Rochelle stated that it was "neither a matriarchy nor a patriarchy: men and women just are". PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, has died at 88. Home Copyright law; or there are no known restrictions on use. Born in Berkeley, California, in 1929, Le Guin began publishing science fiction in the early 1960s and within ten years was acknowledged as one of the most important writers in the genre . Le Guin revisited this essay in 1988, and acknowledged that gender was central to the novel;[53] she also apologized for depicting Gethenians solely in heterosexual relationships. Fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin died Monday afternoon in her Portland, Oregon, home, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin said. Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like "The Left Hand of Darkness" and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88. 82 in American Rhetoric's Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century,[25] and was included in her nonfiction collection Dancing at the Edge of the World. [8][10][11], Le Guin had three older brothers: Karl, who became a literary scholar, Theodore, and Clifton. [121], Several of her works have a premise drawn from sociology, psychology, or philosophy. [39][40][43][233] Her final publications included the non-fiction collections Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, both released after her death. | "You decided to deal with the devil", she wrote in her resignation letter. (I think Tom Mullen agrees with this. Le Guin published eleven books of poetry, five collections of essays and literary criticism, thirteen books for children, four works of translation, several plays and screenplays, the libretto for an opera, twenty-three novels, and twelve volumes of short storiesfiction in all its various forms, including realistic fiction. Literary critic Elaine Showalter suggested that Le Guin "set the pace as a writer for women unlearning silence, fear, and self-doubt",[6] while writer Brian Attebery stated that "[Le Guin] invented us: science fiction and fantasy critics like me but also poets and essayists and picture book writers and novelists". . [112] Taoist influence is evident in Le Guin's depiction of equilibrium in the world of Earthsea: the archipelago is depicted as being based on a delicate balance, which is disrupted by somebody in each of the first three novels. Article. Several of her works are informed by Taoist principles of duality, by Jungian concepts of dream and shadow, and by the anthropological and sociological concerns that were a formative part of her life. This digital access copy is made available as streaming media for personal, educational, and non-commercial use within the parameters of 'fair use' as defined under U.S. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Private memorial services for her were held in Portland. [172] "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas", a parable depicting a society in which widespread wealth, happiness, and security, comes at the cost of the continued misery of a single child, has also been read as a critique of contemporary American society. He has looked over the departments website. While Le Guin had shown an early interest in fantastic worlds and creative writing as a child, it was during this stable, domestic period of her life that she truly began to explore her craft. [186] Praise for Le Guin frequently focused on the social and political themes her work explored,[187] and for her prose; literary critic Harold Bloom described Le Guin as an "exquisite stylist", saying that in her writing, "Every word was exactly in place and every sentence or line had resonance". [214] Bloom followed this up by listing the book in his The Western Canon (1994) as one of the books in his conception of artistic works that have been important and influential in Western culture. The PSU community connected faculty and students to cultural as well as academic resources in Portland including music, theater, and the arts, and was vitally involved in political and creative movements.The University Archives has teamed with the Retirement Association of Portland State (RAPS) and other campus stakeholders in an ongoing effort to capture the first-person insight of those instrumental to the development and success of Portland State. She explored alternative political structures in many stories, such as in the philosophical short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973) and the anarchist utopian novel The Dispossessed (1974). [127] This is particularly true in the stories set in the Hainish universe, an alternative reality in which humans did not evolve on Earth, but on Hain. Awards and honors: Agents: Short biography: Disambiguation notice: Is this you? She was 88-years-old. [103] Le Guin has been credited with "[rescuing] anarchism from the cultural ghetto to which it has been consigned", and helping to bring it into the intellectual mainstream. Le Guin once recalled that their summer house was "an old, tumble-down ranch in the Napa Valley . [140] Although The Left Hand of Darkness was seen as a landmark exploration of gender, it also received criticism for not going far enough. Portland State University, Privacy Soc. In this interview, former Oregon University System Vice-Chancellor and Portland State University administrator Bill Lemman discusses his career in higher education in Oregon with Clarence Hein. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Home In a story so conceived, the moral complexity proper to the modern novel need not be sacrificed, nor is there any built-in dead end; thought and intuition can move freely within bounds set only by the terms of the experiment, which may be very large indeed. Research Lib., Org. [213] Suzanne Reid wrote that at the time The Left Hand of Darkness was written, Le Guin's ideas of androgyny were unique not only to science fiction, but to literature in general. Zaneta graduated with a BS in Graphic Design from Portland State University in 2016, and a BFA in Communication Design from PNCA in 2010. Home He describes his view of Portland State's development from a small college to a large urban university, the professional, social, and cultural environments of the downtown campus, and the founding of pioneering academic programs such as University Studies and the Honors College. Since 1958, Le Guin has lived in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Charles Le Guin, whom she married in Paris in 1953. Cummins, Elizabeth. [5] Not all of her works received as positive a reception; The Compass Rose was among the volumes that had a mixed reaction, while the Science Fiction Encyclopedia described The Eye of the Heron as "an over-diagrammatic political fable whose translucent simplicity approaches self-parody". Le Guin was positive about the aesthetic of the film, writing that "much of it was beautiful", but was critical of the film's moral sense and its use of physical violence, and particularly the use of a villain whose death provided the film's resolution. It was also created as a gift to Ursula K. Le Guin for her collection. "[35][36] In a speech at the 2014 National Book Awards, Le Guin criticized Amazon and the control it exerted over the publishing industry, specifically referencing Amazon's treatment of the Hachette Book Group during a dispute over ebook publication. 1929), American writer, essayist, poet and author of novels, children's books and short stories. [229] In 2013, the Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth Theatre produced a play based on The Left Hand of Darkness, directed and adapted by Jonathan Walters, with text written by John Schmor. Two releases in late July were single issues, one featuring author and poet Ursula K. Le Guin and the other featuring Raven Story, an important traditional story among Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. [111][112] Many of Le Guin's protagonists, including in The Lathe of Heaven, embody the Taoist ideal of leaving things alone. was published in 1974, Le Guin was on her way to becoming the most honored woman in the history of science fiction and fantasy. During this period, she wrote more than twenty novels, more than a hundred short stories, more than a dozen volumes of poetry, five translations, and thirteen children's books. Dr. Charles A. | When they returned home, Charles Le Guin took up a position as a history lecturer at Portland State University and Le Guin concentrated on raising their children. Queen Ursula, photo . [195] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named her its 20th Grand Master in 2003: she was the second, and as of 2019[update] one of only six, women to receive that honor. She began writing full-time in the late 1950s and achieved major critical and commercial success with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), which have been described by Harold Bloom as her masterpieces. She received numerous accolades, including eight Hugos, six Nebulas, and twenty-two Locus Awards, and in 2003 became the second woman honored as a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her best-known fantasies, the six Books of Earthsea, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into sixteen languages. The Lathe of Heaven is set in near-future Portland, and "The New Atlantis" envisions Oregon after an environmental collapse. This recognition allows them to take a third choice, and leave. But in a field largely dominated by mimics and gimmicks, Le. It was the first of her . > In recent novels, such as The Other Wind, she grapples with aging and death. [221][222], Le Guin's works have been adapted for radio,[223][224] film, television, and the stage. . Ursula Le Guin once famously said: "One person cannot do two fulltime jobs, but two persons can do three fulltime jobs, if the work is honestly shared.". Brian Attebery, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, describes Le Guins fiction as "extraordinarily riskyfull of hypotheses about morality, love, society, and ways of enriching life, expressed in the symbolic language found in myth, dream, or poetry.". [85] The Science Fiction Research Association gave her its Pilgrim Award in 1989 for her "lifetime contributions to SF and fantasy scholarship". Ursula K. Le Guin. [101][128] Le Guin's writing often examines alien cultures, and particularly the human cultures from planets other than Earth in the Hainish universe. Critic Harold Bloom placed her in the pantheon of fantasy writers along with J.R.R. Spivak, Charlotte. The Los Angeles Times commented in 2009 that after the death of Arthur C. Clarke, Le Guin was "arguably the most acclaimed science fiction writer on the planet", and went on to describe her as a "pioneer" of literature for young people. These books received more critical attention than Le Guin's short stories, with reviews being published in several science fiction magazines, but the critical response was still muted. Remembering Portland State And then when I got older I found Lord Dunsany. The fledgling college was still small in 1959, but Portland State was fertile ground for intellectual collaboration and camaraderie among faculty across academic departments. [101] Her father Alfred Kroeber is considered a pioneer in the field, and was a director of the University of California Museum of Anthropology: as a consequence of his research, Le Guin was exposed to anthropology and cultural exploration as a child. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. [55] Other writers she influenced include Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, as well as David Mitchell, Gaiman, Algis Budrys, Goonan, and Iain Banks. [126] Le Guin suggested the term "social science fiction" for some of her writing, while pointing out that many of her stories were not science fiction at all. Charles Le Guin, Ph.D. 1956, has written from Portland, Oregon. Accessibility Statement [85][189] Le Guin won twenty-four Locus Awards,[85] voted for by subscribers of Locus Magazine,[190] and as of 2019[update] was joint third for total wins, as well as second behind Neil Gaiman, for the number of wins for works of fiction. [58][59][175], Other social structures are examined in works such as the story cycle Four Ways to Forgiveness, and the short story "Old Music and the Slave Women", occasionally described as a "fifth way to forgiveness". She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. [2] Commentators have noted that the Earthsea novels specifically received less critical attention because they were considered children's books. [63][64] Several of her speculative fiction short stories from the period, including her first published story, were later anthologized in the 1975 collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters. Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber, attended Radcliffe College . Le Guin was highly critical of the miniseries, calling it a "far cry from the Earthsea I envisioned", objecting to the use of white actors for her red-, brown-, and black-skinned characters. Poets, visionaries the realists of a larger reality. [57][101][102][103][104] She described living with her father's friends and acquaintances as giving her the experience of the other. Special Collections & University Archives [86] The volume examined unconventional ideas about gender, as well as anarchist themes. [180][181], Le Guin received rapid recognition after the publication of The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969, and by the 1970s she was among the best known writers in the field. A member of the class of 1947 of Berkeley High School, Le Guin was the daughter of anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Quinn Kroeber. [108] She stated elsewhere that she had never read Jung before writing the first Earthsea books. Though the latter two were set in the fictional country of Orsinia, the stories were realistic fiction rather than fantasy or science fiction. Her reputation as an author of the first rank, and her role as ambassador. Again, pure fantasy. Cadden, Michael. A Wizard of Earthsea, published in 1968, was a fantasy novel written initially for teenagers. [26], Le Guin died on January 22, 2018, at her home in Portland, at the age of 88. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli, Dr. [211] The notion that names can exert power is a theme in the Earthsea series; critics have suggested that this inspired Hayao Miyazaki's use of the idea in his 2001 film Spirited Away. I adored Kipling's Jungle Book. [10], Le Guin's writing career began in the late 1950s, but the time she spent caring for her children constrained her writing schedule. She studied at Radcliffe College and Columbia University. [5][9][182] Her work received intense academic attention; she has been described as being the "premier writer of both fantasy and science fiction" of the 1970s,[183] the most frequently discussed science fiction writer of the 1970s,[184] and over her career, as intensively studied as Philip K. Acknowledgements and thanks to RAPS, Retirement Association of Portland State University, for biographical information on Mr. Lemman. Le Guin's mother, Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979; born Theodora Covel Kracaw), had a graduate degree in psychology. [41] Le Guin turned her attention to science fiction after a lengthy period of receiving rejections from publishers, knowing that there was a market for writing that could be readily classified as such. [10][12] The family divided its time between a summer home in the Napa Valley, and a house in Berkeley during the academic year. She began writing novels and in the early 1960s, tried her hand at genre fiction and chose science fiction. [212], Le Guin's writings set in the Hainish universe also had a wide influence. Special Collections & University Archives, Interview with School of Health and Physical Education Faculty, Interview with Margaret Dobson (Part 1 of 2), Interview with Margaret Dobson (Part 2 of 2). [17] Le Guin undertook graduate studies at Columbia University, and earned a Master of Arts degree in French in 1952. [2] Le Guin herself said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". | Le Guin, who was unfamiliar with his work and anime in general, initially turned down the offer, but later accepted after seeing My Neighbor Totoro. [24] It is listed as No. [179] Slavery, justice, and the role of women in society are also explored in Annals of the Western Shore. In 1953, as a Fulbright Fellow steaming toward France on the Queen Mary, she met historian Charles Le Guin, also a Fulbright Fellow. [142], Le Guin responded to these critiques in her subsequent writing. [177][178] According to Rochelle, the stories examine a society that has the potential to build a "truly human community", made possible by the Ekumen's recognition of the slaves as human beings, thus offering them the prospect of freedom and the possibility of utopia, brought about through revolution. [15], Le Guin's fellow authors also praised her writing. [6][7] Author Margaret Atwood hailed Le Guin's "sane, smart, crafty and lyrical voice", and wrote that social injustice was a powerful motivation through Le Guin's life. When she veered explicitly into the critically unrespected genres of science fiction and fantasy, she found willing publishers. Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. [206], Le Guin had a considerable influence on the field of speculative fiction; Jo Walton argued that Le Guin played a large role in both broadening the genre and helping genre writers achieve mainstream recognition. She stopped working when she gave birth to their first child in 1957. Her father, Alfred Louis Kroeber, was an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. | [40][94] Her best-known works include the six volumes of the Earthsea series, and the many novels of the Hainish Cycle. Her novel Laviniais a ground-breaking exploration of the boundaries between history and mythology, creator and created. Le Guin died suddenly and peacefully . The play opened May 2, 2013, and ran until June 16, 2013, in Portland, Oregon. [85], Other awards and accolades have recognized Le Guin's contributions to speculative fiction. It received critical praise,[78] won Le Guin a third Nebula Award for Best Novel,[79] and led to the series being recognized among adult literature. 5. The award is managed by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust and a panel of jurors. Born in Berkeley, California in 1929, Le Guin graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951, then earned a master's degree from Columbia University the following year. [If] you like you can read [a lot of] science fiction, as a thought-experiment. PSU Oral Histories As a Vanport Extension Center student, he had close relationships with many faculty, including VEC founder Stephen Epler. . The Le Guins have lived in Portland for more than four . Le Guin Charles Alfred Le Guin edit Statements instance of human 0 references sex or gender male 0 references country of citizenship United States of America 0 references given name Charles series ordinal 1 0 references Alfred series ordinal 2 0 references family name Le Guin [55] According to scholar Donna White, Le Guin was a "major voice in American letters", whose writing was the subject of many volumes of literary critique, more than two hundred scholarly articles, and a number of dissertations. This stuff is so beautiful, and so strange, and I want to do something like that. | > Michael O'Rourke interviewed Dr. Margaret Dobson on November 22 and 29, 2010, at the Portland State University Library. Photo by Moira McAuliffe / GobQ LLC. The Hainish subsequently colonized many planets, before losing contact with them, giving rise to varied but related biology and social structure. she wrote that gender was secondary to the primary theme of loyalty in The Left Hand of Darkness. Portland ended up being the couple's permanent home, but for a couple of sojourns Ursula made to London when she received further Fulbright research grants . Past the barriers at the entranceCharles's menacingly thorny roses, the lion . These stories are ageless because they deal with problems that confront us at any age."[120]. She later wrote that it was the first and only time she had experienced prejudice against her as a woman writer from an editor or publisher, and reflected that "it seemed so silly, so grotesque, that I failed to see that it was also important." Two more Hainish novels, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions were published in 1966 and 1967, respectively, and the three books together would come to be known as the Hainish trilogy. Born in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929, Le Guin attended both Radcliffe College and Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Paris. Public History Commons, Home For the past half century, Le Guin and Charles, a professor of history at Portland State University, have lived in a handsome but inconspicuous Victorian on a steep, tree-lined street just below Portland's Forest Park. Portland State University Oral History: Interview with Charles Le Guin Portland State University 16.4K subscribers Subscribe 1.2K views 3 years ago Dr. Charles A. It's late 2014 and Le Guinthe writer who invented . [226], Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness was adapted for the stage in 1995 by Chicago's Lifeline Theatre. Variables are the spice of life. [130] The novel was framed as part of a report sent to the Ekumen by the protagonist Genly Ai after his time on the planet Gethen, thus suggesting that Ai was selecting and ordering the material, consisting of personal narration, diary extracts, Gethenian myths, and ethnological reports. The anthropologists of the Hainish universe try not to meddle with the cultures they encounter, while one of the earliest lessons Ged learns in A Wizard of Earthsea is not to use magic unless it is absolutely necessary. [53], Commentators have also described Le Guin as being influential in the field of literature more generally. [158][159], Each volume of Annals of the Western Shore also describes the coming of age of its protagonists,[160] and features explorations of being enslaved to one's own power. Their summer retreat, an old ranch named "Kishamish" in the hills of Napa Valley, was a gathering place for scientists, writers, students, and California Indians. In 1953, as a Fulbright Fellow steaming toward France on the Queen Mary, she met historian Charles Le Guin, also a Fulbright Fellow. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, has died at 88. About Accessibility Statement Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. The term "magic realism" had not yet found currency, and her stories were perhaps uncategorizable. Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. The inaugural shortlist was announced on July 28, 2022. [9] Prefacing an interview in 2008, Vice magazine described Le Guin as having written "some of the more mind-warping [science fiction] and fantasy tales of the past 40 years". [201] A collection of Le Guin's works was published by the Library of America in 2016, an honor only rarely given to living writers. [167] The Dispossessed is an anarchist utopian novel, which according to Le Guin drew from pacifist anarchists, including Peter Kropotkin, as well as from the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Ursula K. Le Guin, who beginning in the 1960s upended the male-dominated genres of fantasy and science fiction, crafting novels that grappled with issues of gender inequality, racism and . [124][125] A number of science fiction authors have objected to the term "soft science fiction", describing it as a potentially pejorative term used to dismiss stories not based on problems in physics, astronomy, or engineering, and also to target the writing of women or other groups under-represented in the genre. [176] Set in the Hainish universe, the five stories together examine revolution and reconstruction in a slave-owning society. Federal Tax ID 93-0391599. She was 88. In subsequent printings, the story was published under her full name. He explains, It was a happy place for me to be, being a part of the development of a fledgling college of2500 students which has grown into a university with 30,000 students in a remarkably short time: PSU has just had the good sense to hire a new College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean who was an Emory undergraduate (Susan Beatty, a geographer). [217] Le Guin is also credited with inspiring several female science fiction authors in the 1970s, including Vonda McIntyre. Le Guin's first published work was the poem "Folksong from the Montayna Province" in 1959, while her first published short story was "An die Musik", in 1961. While Le Guin had shown an early interest in fantastic worlds and creative writing as a child, it was during this stable, domestic period of her life that she truly began to explore her craft. 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