Author

Books by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American novelist and essayist whose work across science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction redefined what speculative fiction could be. She is best known for the Hainish Cycle — which includes The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed — and the Earthsea series. She won six Hugo Awards, six Nebula Awards, and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Le Guin studied at Radcliffe and Columbia and was the daughter of anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, whose influence on her anthropological approach to world-building is pervasive.