[17] As a child she had been interested in biology and poetry, but had been limited in her choice of career by her difficulties with mathematics. [162] This wrestling with choice has been compared to the choices the characters are forced to make in Le Guin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". [3] Le Guin's transgression of conventional boundaries of genre led to literary criticism of Le Guin becoming "Balkanized", particularly between scholars of children's literature and speculative fiction. Dr. Charles A. She began writing novels and in the early 1960s, tried her hand at genre fiction and chose science fiction. Tolkien. [219], In October 2021, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction was announced. [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. Ursula K. Le Guin signing books at at Portland State University, May 2010. | Highlights include student life and media at Vanport Extension Center, the Vanport flood of 1948, urban renewal in Portland that facilitated the establishment of the campus during the 1960s and 70s, student housing, and collective bargaining with faculty and staff unions.This interview was recorded in two sittings on September 23 and September 27, 2010. Betsy Ayres, of Cannon Beach, remembered Le Guin as a friend and inspiration. Variables are the spice of life. [40][143][144] Le Guin initially defended her writing; in a 1976 essay "Is Gender Necessary?" [2][119] In 1976, literature scholar George Slusser criticized the "silly publication classification designating the original series as 'children's literature'",[120] while in Barbara Bucknall's opinion Le Guin "can be read, like Tolkien, by ten-year-olds and by adults. Nonetheless, the misogyny and hierarchy present in the authoritarian society of Urras is absent among the anarchists, who base their social structure on cooperation and individual liberty. The society of the Kesh has been identified by scholars as a feminist utopia, which Le Guin uses to explore the role of technology. 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. Dr. Still, her name is most often associated with the speculative works of the imagination that first introduced her to readers. [53], Commentators have also described Le Guin as being influential in the field of literature more generally. In 2004, Lemman was granted an honorary doctorate from Portland State University. [6] Le Guin's own literary criticism proved influential; her 1973 essay "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" led to renewed interest in the work of Kenneth Morris, and eventually to the publication of a posthumous novel by Morris. She also said she was better pleased with stage versions, including Paradises Lost, than screen adaptations of her work to that date. Her 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven has been released on film twice, in 1979 by WNET with Le Guin's participation, and then in 2002 by the A&E Network. TX Big Read, 2008. Lemman left PSU in 1974 to become Vice Chancellor of the Oregon University System and served with the office for over 15 years, including acting as interim chancellor from 1987 to 1988 and interim president of Oregon Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1991. 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. My Account 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. [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. Dr. [169] Unlike classical utopias, the society of Anarres is portrayed as neither perfect nor static; the protagonist Shevek finds himself traveling to Urras to pursue his research. The stamp features a portrait of the author taken from a 2006 photograph against a background image inspired by her book The Left Hand of Darkness. [85] She won her final Hugo award a year after her death, for a complete edition of Earthsea, illustrated by Charles Vess; the same volume also won a Locus award. [15] In the early 1980s Hayao Miyazaki asked to create an animated adaptation of Earthsea. [10][18], In 1953, while traveling to France aboard the Queen Mary, Ursula met historian Charles Le Guin. 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. She was also a board member of Literary Arts and the Multnomah County Library. Ursula K. Le Guin, one of Oregons preeminent writers, was born Ursula Kroeber in 1929 in Berkeley, California, the youngest and only girl in a family of four children. Dr. Charles A. PERSONAL: Surname pronounced "luh-gwin" born October 21, 1929, in Berkeley, CA; daughter of Alfred L. (an anthropologist) and Theodora Covel Brown (a writer; maiden name, Kracaw) Kroeber; married Charles Alfred Le Guin (an historian), December 22, 1953; children: Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore. [and] a gathering place for scientists, writers, students, and California Indians. 1929), American writer, essayist, poet and author of novels, children's books and short stories. The Oregon History Wayfinder is an interactive map that identifies significant places, people, and events in Oregon history. [218] Film-maker Arwen Curry began production on a documentary about Le Guin in 2009, filming "dozens" of hours of interviews with the author as well as many other writers and artists who have been inspired by her. I retired in 1995, finished a book with two colleagues (In The Balance: Themes in Global History, 1998), and have since devoted myself mainly to reading any and everything and gardening. [196][197][198] In 2013, she was given the Eaton Award by the University of California, Riverside, for lifetime achievement in science fiction. Social and political themes, including race, gender, sexuality, and coming of age were prominent in her writing. [47] The first two were each published as half of an "Ace Double": two novels bound into a paperback and sold as a single low-cost volume. Copyright, Special Collections & University Archives. Why in the future would we assume they are? Ursula Le Guin American author of novels, children's books, is seen in a Sept. 9, 2001 photo at home in Portland, Ore. A number of Hainish novels, The Dispossessed prominent among them, explored such a process of reconciliation. The Kroebers redwood home in Berkeley was a place of books, music, storytelling, and discussion. Worm Ouroboros. [39][40] Between 1951 and 1961 she also wrote five novels, all set in Orsinia, which were rejected by publishers on the grounds that they were inaccessible. Her father, Alfred Louis Kroeber, was an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. When she veered explicitly into the critically unrespected genres of science fiction and fantasy, she found willing publishers. Le Guin is Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University, where he taught for over thirty-five years. Early attempts to publish her fiction met with little success, and Le Guin's first published writings were poems. It wasn't until I came back to science fiction and discovered Sturgeon but particularly Cordwainer Smith. She expressed a deep interest in Taoism and Buddhism, saying that Taoism gave her a "handle on how to look at life" during her adolescent years. [26], Le Guin died on January 22, 2018, at her home in Portland, at the age of 88. [2] Le Guin said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".[3]. Ursula Le Guin. She is survived by her. Home [57][101][102][103][104] She described living with her father's friends and acquaintances as giving her the experience of the other. Charles worked on his doctorate in Georgia and Idaho. [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. 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.". [40][76], Gender and sexuality are prominent themes in a number of Le Guin's works. [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. Ursula K. Le Guin, in the introduction to the 1976 edition of The Left Hand of Darkness. Poets, visionaries the realists of a larger reality. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/. [24] It is listed as No. Born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, Ursula Le Guin is the daughter of the writer Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. It's their main occupation, in fact. PSU Oral Histories. 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. At this point in her life, Le Guin was working as a history teacher at Portland State University (White, 2016). Rather than being directed by Hayao Miyazaki himself, the film was directed by his son Gor, which disappointed Le Guin. she wrote that gender was secondary to the primary theme of loyalty in The Left Hand of Darkness. By 1958, the Le Guins had settled in Portland, where Charles took a teaching position at Portland State College (now Portland State University) and Ursula began her career as a writer. Reviewer Jack Helbig at the Chicago Reader wrote that the "adaptation is intelligent and well crafted but ultimately unsatisfying", in large measure because it is extremely difficult to compress a complex 300-page novel into a two-hour stage presentation. 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. [162] Similarly, Ged helps Tenar in The Tombs of Atuan to value herself and to find choices that she did not see,[163][164] leading her to leave the Tombs with him. Born in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929, Le Guin attended both Radcliffe College and Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Paris. Among the most honored of contemporary American authors, she received a National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Howard Vursell Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the L.A. Times Robert Kirsch Award, a Newbery Silver Medal, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Gandalf Award, a James Tiptree Jr. Retrospective Award, and the Boston Globe/Hornbook Award. Ursula K. Le Guin, original name Ursula Kroeber, (born October 21, 1929, Berkeley, California, U.S.died January 22, 2018, Portland, Oregon), American writer best known for tales of science fiction and fantasy imbued with concern for character development and language. [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. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. Some portions of the interview have been edited for relevance to PSU history. Our lectures happen (nearly) every Thursday during the school . Accessibility Statement Oral History Commons, He joined the faculty of Portland State College in 1959, when most of the campus classrooms, offices, and facilities were still located in the former Lincoln High School Building in downtown Portland, and the college's first new building, Cramer Hall, was still only partially built.In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. Birthday: October 21, 1929 ( Libra) Born In: Berkeley, California, United States 18 4 Novelists #116 Literary Critics #2 Science Fiction Writers #12 Quick Facts Also Known As: Ursula Kroeber Le Guin Died At Age: 88 Family: Spouse/Ex-: Charles Le Guin (m. 1953) father: A. L. Kroeber mother: Theodora Kroeber [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. "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. Some of her poetry from this period was published in 1975 in the volume Wild Angels. Bill Lemman has been affiliated with Portland State from its inception. [83] In 2000 she published The Telling, which would be her final Hainish novel, and the next year released Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind, the last two Earthsea books. Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her . In recent novels, such as The Other Wind, she grapples with aging and death. Le Guin's writing was enormously influential in the field of speculative fiction, and has been the subject of intense critical attention. Le Guin is Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University, where he taught for over thirty-five years. 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. She was 88. [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. Ursula K. Le Guin (b. This included speculative fiction in the form of the novel The Eye of the Heron, which, according to Le Guin, may be a part of the Hainish universe. 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. Having earned a master's degree in French, Le Guin began doctoral studies but abandoned these after her marriage in 1953 to historian Charles Le Guin. The unabridged recording and transcript are available through Portland State University Archives at the PSU Library. [137] Which sex they adopt can depend on context and relationships. He opened up a whole new world the world of pure fantasy. [191] For her novels alone she won five Locus Awards, four Nebula Awards, two Hugo Awards, and one World Fantasy Award, and won each of those awards in short fiction categories as well. The best-selling writer passed away on Monday at her home in Portland, Oregon, after a. [82] It was described by scholar Sandra Lindow as "so transgressively sexual and so morally courageous" that Le Guin "could not have written it in the '60s". Cultural anthropology, Taoism, feminism, and the writings of Carl Jung all had a strong influence on Le Guin's work. . [18] Soon after, she began working towards a PhD, and won a Fulbright grant to continue her studies in France from 1953 to 1954. She explained this choice, saying: "most people in the world aren't white. [54] Outside the Hainish Cycle, Le Guin's use of a female protagonist in The Tombs of Atuan, published in 1971, was described as a "significant exploration of womanhood". Le Guin wrote in a 1973 essay that she chose to explore coming-of-age in Earthsea since she was writing for an adolescent audience: "Coming of age is a process that took me many years; I finished it, so far as I ever will, at about age thirty-one; and so I feel rather deeply about it. 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. [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. This recognition allows them to take a third choice, and leave. [220] The prize's inaugural winner was announced on October 21, 2022, Le Guin's birthday. [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. Remembering Portland State [33][96] Authors Le Guin describes as influential include Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Boris Pasternak, and Philip K. Dick. [4][14][15], Le Guin attended Berkeley High School. [114] Another prominent Taoist idea is the reconciliation of opposites such as light and dark, or good and evil. Boston: Twayne, 1984. She met her husband, Charles Le Guin, who . She married Charles Le Guin the following year, and the couple moved to Portland in 1958, where they would raise their three children while Charles taught at Portland State University. 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. Become a . [75] In 1985 she published the experimental work Always Coming Home. 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[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. [153] A Wizard of Earthsea focuses on Ged's adolescence, while The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore explore that of Tenar and the prince Arren, respectively. Show & Tell is PSU Graphic Design's lunchtime lecture series where working design professionals stop by to blow our minds with their wisdom. 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. Cummins, Elizabeth. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. He returned again in 1959, eventually becoming Vice President for Business and Finance for Portland State College. [226], Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness was adapted for the stage in 1995 by Chicago's Lifeline Theatre. [74][75] She also revisited Earthsea, publishing Tehanu in 1990: coming eighteen years after The Farthest Shore, during which Le Guin's views had developed considerably, the book was grimmer in tone than the earlier works in the series, and challenged some ideas presented therein. [53] The book was Le Guin's first to address feminist issues,[54] and according to scholar Donna White, it "stunned the science fiction critics"; it won both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards for best novel, making Le Guin the first woman to win these awards, and a number of other accolades. Le Guin died . | Her father was the University of California's. And then my brother and I blundered into science fiction when I was 11 or 12. The prize is worth US$25,000 and will be awarded annually to "a single book-length work of imaginative fiction." She married Charles Le Guin in Paris in 1953. Three emeritus faculty members from Portland State's School of Health and Human Performance met for this oral history interview: Chuck Becker, Alice Lehman, and Jack Schendel. [139], Le Guin's attitude towards gender and feminism evolved considerably over time. [207], Several prominent authors acknowledge Le Guin's influence on their own writing. [If] you like you can read [a lot of] science fiction, as a thought-experiment. Le Guin, Charles and Petrocelli, Heather Oriana, "Interview with Charles Le Guin" (2017). This biography of Le Guin was written in 2003 by a Portland State University Women's Studies student as part of the "Portland Women City-Builders" project. [18] While her husband finished his doctorate at Emory University in Georgia, and later at the University of Idaho, Le Guin taught French and worked as a secretary until the birth of her daughter Elisabeth in 1957. [117][118], Although Le Guin is primarily known for her works of speculative fiction, she also wrote realistic fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and several other literary forms, and as a result her work is difficult to classify. ) The year Dr. After stints at Mercer and Emory universities in Georgia and the University of Idaho, the Le Guins settled in 1958 in Portland, where Charles Le Guin had taken a position as a professor of French history at Portland State College, as it was known then. The world-famous author was heralded as a major female voice in science fiction, but her work transcended the genre. Michael O'Rourke interviewed Dr. Margaret Dobson on November 22 and 29, 2010, at the Portland State University Library. Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. 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. The house where Le Guin has lived for more than fifty years has, in certain respects, come to resemble its owner. It cannot be reproduced in any form, distributed or screened for commercial purposes.It is made accessible because of one or more of the following situations: the rights are owned by State Board of Higher Education, on behalf of Portland State University; Portland State University has permission to make it accessible; it is made accessible for education and research purposes under \"fair use\" under U.S. London: Routledge, 2004. Born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, Ursula Le Guin is the daughter of the writer Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. She argued that the term "soft science fiction" was divisive, and implied a narrow view of what constitutes valid science fiction. Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. Just Don't Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer", "Margaret Atwood: We lost Ursula Le Guin when we needed her most", "The Night Ursula K. Le Guin Pranked The Patriarchy", "The May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award", Association for Library Service to Children, "The 2014 Medalist for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters", "Ursula K. Le Guin wins big honor from National Book Foundation", "Beloved Fantasy Author Ursula Le Guin Dead at 88", "Portland literary icon Ursula K. 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Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. She was 88. [149], Le Guin explores coming of age, and moral development more broadly, in many of her writings. [131] Earthsea also employed an unconventional narrative form described by scholar Mike Cadden as "free indirect discourse", in which the feelings of the protagonist are not directly separated from the narration, making the narrator seem sympathetic to the characters, and removing the skepticism towards a character's thoughts and emotions that are a feature of more direct narration. Dr. Charles A. Other authors she enjoyed were Lord Dunsany and Lewis Padgett. [40][84] The latter won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2002. As a Vanport Extension Center student, he had close relationships with many faculty, including VEC founder Stephen Epler. . 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