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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, and lives in Portland, Oregon. As of 2017, she will have published 23 novels, 12 collections of stories, 5 books of essays, 13 books for children, 9 volumes of poetry, and 4 of translation. Among her awards are the Hugo, Nebula, National Book, and PEN-Malamud, and she has been honored as a Library of Congress Living Legend and with the National Book Foundation Medal. (Author photograph by Eileen Gunn) icon

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For 30 or 40 years a book has been lurking on my shelves, a beautiful little Everyman’s Library edition published by Dent and Dutton, undated, with red fake leather binding …

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