Ursula K. Le Guin : Sci-Fi American Author of Speculative Fiction, Including Science Fiction Works Set in her Hainish Universe, and the Earthsea Fantasy Series

October 21, 1929 — January 22, 2018

Entry 776

Public

From: holdoffhunger [id: 1]
(holdoffhunger@gmail.com)

../ggcms/src/templates/revoltsource/view/display_childof_people.php

RevoltSource People Ursula K. Le Guin

Not Logged In: Login?

0

0

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. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA?s Grand Master...

From : UrsulaKLeguin.com

Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Writings by Ursula K. Le Guin

Image Gallery of Ursula K. Le Guin

Chronology

An icon of a baby.

October 21, 1929

Birth Day.

An icon of a gravestone.

January 22, 2018

Death Day.

An icon of a news paper.

March 24, 2020; 1:43:57 PM (UTC)

Added to http://RevoltSource.com.

An icon of a red pin for a bulletin board.

December 17, 2022; 8:02:13 PM (UTC)

Updated on http://RevoltSource.com.

Links

• Wikipedia: Ursula K. Le Guin

• NYTimes.com: Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88

• NewYorker.com: The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin

Comments

Login to Comment

0 Likes

0 Dislikes

Who Liked This?

No comments so far. You can be the first!

Navigation

<< Last Entry in People Hugues-F?licit? Robert De Lamennais	Current Entry in People Ursula K. Le Guin	Next Entry in People >> The League for Peace and Freedom
All Nearby Items in People Lamennais, Hugues-F?licit? Robert de - A French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was one of the most influential intellectuals of Restoration France. Lamennais is considered the forerunner of liberal Catholicism and social Catholicism. Land and Liberty (Zemlya i Volya) - A Russian clandestine revolutionary organization in the period 1861?1864, and was re-established as a political party in the period 1876?1879. It was a central organ of the Narodnik movement. Landis, Arthur H. - High School education; Single; Driver and Cook; YCL 1934; Received Passport# 28921 San Francisco on June 1, 1937 which listed his address as 1209 South Maple, Los Angeles, and 226 North Irena Street, Redoondo Beach, both California (2809 S. Maple Street, Los Angeles, California)... Langerock, Hubert - Writer, sociologist... Laplace, Pierre-Simon - A French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume M?canique c?leste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799?1825). Lassalle, Ferdinand - A Prussian-German jurist, philosopher, socialist and political activist best remembered as the initiator of the social democratic movement in Germany. "Lassalle was the first man in Germany, the first in Europe, who succeeded in organising a party of socialist action", or, as Rosa Luxemburg put it: "Lassalle managed to wrestle from history in two years of flaming agitation what needed many decades to come about." Laurier, Henry Charles Wilfrid - Lawyer, newspaperman, and politician; b. 20 Nov. 1841 in the parish of Saint-Lin (Laurentides), Lower Canada, son of Carolus Laurier and Marcelle Martineau; m. 13 May 1868 Zo? Lafontaine in Montreal; they had no children; d. 17 Feb. 1919 in Ottawa. Laursen, Eric - Author, The Duty to Stand Aside: 1984 and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort. Lazare, Bernard - A French literary critic, political journalist, polemicist, and anarchist. He was also among the first Dreyfusards. ?calan, Abdullah - A political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). ?calan was based in Syria from 1979 to 1998. He helped found the PKK in 1978, and led it into the Kurdish?Turkish conflict in 1984. For most of his leadership, he was based in Syria, which provided sanctuary to the PKK until the late 1990s. Le Guin, Ursula K. - 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. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA?s Grand Master... Lewis, Joseph L. - An American freethinker and atheist activist, publisher, and litigator. During the mid-twentieth century, he was one of America's most conspicuous public atheists, the other being Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Born in Montgomery, Alabama to a Jewish family, he was forced by poverty to leave school at the age of nine to find employment. He read avidly, becoming self-educated. Levertov, Denise - A British-born naturalised American poet. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Levitan, Sar A. - An economist widely known for his analysis of social policy and influence on government programs as diverse as employment training and rural development, died on Tuesday in Washington. He was 79. Leslie, Thomas Edward Cliffe - An Irish jurist and economist. He was professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen's College, Belfast, noted for challenging the Wages-Fund doctrine and for addressing contemporary agrarian policy questions. A critic of Ricardian orthodoxy, he said that it had sidelined consumer behaviour and demand. He developed the idea of consumer sovereignty... Leval, Gaston - An anarcho-syndicalist, combatant and historian of the Spanish Revolution. Leval was the son of a French Communard.He escaped to Spain in 1915 to avoid conscription during the First World War. In Spain he joined the anarcho-syndicalist Confederaci?n Nacional del Trabajo trade union. Leval left for Argentina during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera where he would live from 1923 to 1936. Lesley, Joseph Peter - An American geologist. Leiserson, William Morris - A labor relations scholar and mediator. Leiserson was a professor, state and federal government administrator, mediator, arbitrator, and a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt?s "brain trust," which developed and wrote legislation such as the Railway Labor Act of 1934. Lefebvre, Georges - ...a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He is considered one of the pioneers of "history from below". He coined the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789. Among his most significant works was the 1924 book Les Paysans du Nord pendant la R?volution fran?aise ("The Peasants of the North During the French Revolution")... Leary, Timothy - An American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from bold oracle to publicity hound. He was "a hero of American consciousness", according to Allen Ginsberg, and Tom Robbins called him a "brave neuronaut". League for Peace and Freedom, The - A non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace" and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation. WILPF has national sections in 37 countries.

Home|About|Contact|Privacy Policy