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Ursula K. Le Guin's first story was rejected by Amazing Stories -- back when she was 11 years old. Since then, Le Guin has become one of science fiction's most critically acclaimed authors, as well as a versatile writer of poetry, children's books, essays, and nonfiction.
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Fact File
| Name:
Ursula K. Le Guin
Current Home:
Portland, Oregon
Date of Birth:
October 21, 1929
Place of Birth:
Berkeley, California
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B.A., Radcliffe College; M.A., Columbia University, 1952
Awards:
Nebula Award for The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969; Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement, L.A. Times, 2000; PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, 2002
Ursula K. Le Guin's official web site
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The Best Book to Read First
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| | Left Hand of Darkness
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Ursula K. Le Guin
In The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin creates a fictional world of dazzling complexity and depth, providing the androgynous inhabitants of the planet Winter with a rich array of myths, social customs, and political structures. More than 30 years after its publication, this science-fiction classic is still a thought-provoking read.
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A Regrettable Rejection
| On her web site, www.ursulakleguin.com, Le Guin includes a rejection she received for The Left Hand of Darkness, "to cheer up anybody who just got a rejection letter." Here is what the editor had to say about Le Guin's novel, which would go on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: "The book is so endlessly complicated by details of reference and information, the interim legends become so much of a nuisance despite their relevance, that the very action of the story seems to be to become hopelessly bogged down and the book, eventually, unreadable."
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