Ursula K. Le Guin
American novelist, poet, and essayist. Author of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and Always Coming Home. Anchor of speculative fiction as serious literature.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ask Ursula K. Le Guin about Earthsea, anarchism, and speculative fiction as serious literature. Walk Earthsea with the writer who took fantasy seriously.
American novelist, poet, and essayist. Author of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and Always Coming Home. Anchor of speculative fiction as serious literature.
- Born
- 1929
- Died
- 2018
- Birthplace
- Berkeley, California
- Nationality
- United States
What Ursula K. Le Guin can help you think about
Ursula K. Le Guin is a fitting guide when your questions touch writers & poets and novelists. Bring whatever you're untangling — a decision you're weighing, a doubt you're sitting with, a problem that won't loosen — and let the conversation move from there.
The answers draw on the shape of Ursula K. Le Guin's thinking across work like The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and A Wizard of Earthsea — translated into a voice you can actually talk back to.
Ask plainly. Push back. Follow a thread until it goes somewhere. This isn't a lookup — it's a conversation with a mentor who's already done the thinking you're about to do.
- Writers & Poets
- Novelists