After earning his degree in Business Administration at the University of Oregon in 1949, he returned to Vanport in 1950 as Assistant Business Manager. The fledgling college was still small in 1959, but Portland State was fertile ground for intellectual collaboration and camaraderie among faculty across academic departments. [39][40][43][233] Her final publications included the non-fiction collections Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, both released after her death. The 56-year-old novelist has blithely bounced from planet to planet and, in her Hainish cycle, brought into being a storybook universe. 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.". Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. [30][37][38], Le Guin's first published work was the poem "Folksong from the Montayna Province" in 1959, while her first published short story was "An die Musik", in 1961; both were set in her fictional country of Orsinia. [9][205] Her writing encompassed speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. [6] China Miville described Le Guin as a "literary colossus", and wrote that she was a "writer of intense ethical seriousness and intelligence, of wit and fury, of radical politics, of subtlety, of freedom and yearning". Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. ) The year Dr. [41] Le Guin turned her attention to science fiction after a lengthy period of receiving rejections from publishers, knowing that there was a market for writing that could be readily classified as such. [221][222], Le Guin's works have been adapted for radio,[223][224] film, television, and the stage. [5][9][182] Her work received intense academic attention; she has been described as being the "premier writer of both fantasy and science fiction" of the 1970s,[183] the most frequently discussed science fiction writer of the 1970s,[184] and over her career, as intensively studied as Philip K. Born in Berkeley, California in 1929, Le Guin graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951, then earned a master's degree from Columbia University the following year. [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. 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. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". [9][27] A public memorial service, which included speeches by the writers Margaret Atwood, Molly Gloss, and Walidah Imarisha, was held in Portland on June 13, 2018.[28][29]. Dr. Charles A. However, as Le Guin rose to popularity in science fiction, she gradually abandoned this job. [99] In an obituary, Clute described Le Guin as having "presided over American science fiction for nearly half a century", and as having a reputation as an author of the "first rank". Le Guin is notable for her willingness to revisit earlier works in response to her own maturing thought and especially her growing feminism. Jack Schendel, Dean Emeritus of the School of Health and Human Performance, describes the mission and achievements of the School in providing specialized professional training for students in various fields of health education, and the circumstances leading to the closure of the School in 1992. Born in Berkeley, California, in 1929, Le Guin began publishing science fiction in the early 1960s and within ten years was acknowledged as one of the most important writers in the genre . Le Guin and Dick attended the same high-school, but did not know each other; Le Guin later described her novel The Lathe of Heaven as an homage to him. Portland State University Oral History: Interview with Charles Le Guin Portland State University 16.4K subscribers Subscribe 1.2K views 3 years ago Dr. Charles A. The unabridged recording and transcript are available through Portland State University Archives at the PSU Library. Le Guin recalls Portland State's development from a small college to a large urban university and changes which occurred in departmental structure and campus culture as the school grew. [61] Her 1974 novel The Dispossessed again won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards for best novel, making her the first person to win both awards for each of two books. 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Le Guin Burns Down the National Book Awards", "The Literary Prize for the Refusal of Literary Prizes", "How to turn down a prestigious literary prize a winner's guide to etiquette", "Interviews: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. He opened up a whole new world the world of pure fantasy. | Wednesday, June 13 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Literary . [53], Her writing was recognized by the popular media and by commentators. W.T. 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. Michael O'Rourke interviewed Dr. Margaret Dobson on November 22 and 29, 2010, at the Portland State University Library. Two more Hainish novels, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions were published in 1966 and 1967, respectively, and the three books together would come to be known as the Hainish trilogy. Again, pure fantasy. Their second child came in 1958 and Charles began working at Portland State University, so the family moved to Portland, Oregon. Fortunately, though extrapolation is an element in science fiction, it isn't the name of the game by any means. The Los Angeles Times commented in 2009 that after the death of Arthur C. Clarke, Le Guin was "arguably the most acclaimed science fiction writer on the planet", and went on to describe her as a "pioneer" of literature for young people. [2] Her writings received critical attention from mainstream critics, critics of children's literature, and critics of speculative fiction. A member of the class of 1947 of Berkeley High School, Le Guin was the daughter of anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Quinn Kroeber. [232], Le Guin's career as a professional writer spanned nearly sixty years, from 1959 to 2018. Award-winning US science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K Le Guin has died, aged 88, her family said. Dr. Charles 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". Le Guin, a graduate of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, received his Master's degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and his Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta. 82 in American Rhetoric's Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century,[25] and was included in her nonfiction collection Dancing at the Edge of the World. Among the things that amazes me most, he writes, is the size of the department: from 1950-56, the period when I was doing my degree, I can recall only ten faculty: Mathews, Major, Posey (shared with Agnes Scott as I recall), Duncan, Rabun, Cuttino, Benjamin, McLean, Wiley, and Young. She met the historian Charles Le Guin while enroute to France on a Fulbright scholarship, and they married shortly afterward. In this interview with Michael ORourke, Mr. Lemman discusses his experiences and accomplishments from his undergraduate years at Vanport until his administrative position in Oregon higher education, and remembers faculty, students, and administrators with whom he worked to grow Portland State into an urban campus of almost thirty thousand students. [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. Cadden, Michael. Federal Tax ID 93-0391599. Le Guin describes his studies: I came to Emory to pursue my PhD in 1950 and Joseph Mathews undertook to guide me to my degree: it took a whilea Fulbright and some teachingbefore that was accomplished. Le Guin, the daughter of distinguished anthropologist A.L. [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. [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. [48], When publishing her story "Nine Lives" in 1968, Playboy magazine asked Le Guin whether they could run the story without her full first name, to which Le Guin agreed: the story was published under the name "U. K. Le Guin". The best-selling writer passed away on Monday at her home in Portland, Oregon, after a. Copyright by Marian Wood Kolisch, Courtesy Oregon Hist. She also said she was better pleased with stage versions, including Paradises Lost, than screen adaptations of her work to that date. Copyright law. Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. 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. [4] Le Guin had not planned to write for young adults, but was asked to write a novel targeted at this group by the editor of Parnassus Press, who saw it as a market with great potential. So do most adolescents. Ursula K. Le Guin, in the introduction to the 1976 edition of The Left Hand of Darkness. [60] Both books were praised for their writing, while the exploration of death as a theme in The Farthest Shore also drew praise. | Ursula Le Guin. She was also a board member of Literary Arts and the Multnomah County Library. 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. > Le Guin finished his degree on the French Revolution, Dr. Mathews was abroad on a Fulbright at Oxford, and so Russell Major took over his training. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/. Early attempts to publish her fiction met with little success, and Le Guin's first published writings were poems. [40][94] Her best-known works include the six volumes of the Earthsea series, and the many novels of the Hainish Cycle. Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin. [141][145][146] "Coming of Age in Karhide" was later anthologized in the 2002 collection The Birthday of the World, which contained six other stories featuring unorthodox sexual relationships and marital arrangements. [229] In 2013, the Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth Theatre produced a play based on The Left Hand of Darkness, directed and adapted by Jonathan Walters, with text written by John Schmor. [74], Between 1979, when she published Malafrena, and 1994, when the collection A Fisherman of the Inland Sea was released, Le Guin wrote primarily for a younger audience. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. [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. > Dr. [127] In discovering these "alien" worlds, Le Guin's protagonists, and by extension the readers, also journey into themselves, and challenge the nature of what they consider "alien" and what they consider "native". 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. Dr. Michael Reardon discusses his career at Portland State from his start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History in 1964 through his many administrative roles to his eventual service as Interim President of the University from 2007 to 2008. [44] Among them were "The Dowry of Angyar", which introduced the fictional Hainish universe,[45] and "The Rule of Names" and "The Word of Unbinding", which introduced the world of Earthsea. Charles Le Guin, Ph.D. 1956, has written from Portland, Oregon. "[35][36] In a speech at the 2014 National Book Awards, Le Guin criticized Amazon and the control it exerted over the publishing industry, specifically referencing Amazon's treatment of the Hachette Book Group during a dispute over ebook publication. The Lathe of Heaven is set in near-future Portland, and "The New Atlantis" envisions Oregon after an environmental collapse. [17] Le Guin undertook graduate studies at Columbia University, and earned a Master of Arts degree in French in 1952. [62] Also set in the Hainish universe, the story explored anarchism and utopianism. This stuff is so beautiful, and so strange, and I want to do something like that. [18] They married in Paris in December 1953. Several of her works are informed by Taoist principles of duality, by Jungian concepts of dream and shadow, and by the anthropological and sociological concerns that were a formative part of her life. Cummins, Elizabeth. [167] The Dispossessed is an anarchist utopian novel, which according to Le Guin drew from pacifist anarchists, including Peter Kropotkin, as well as from the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Dr. Le Guin died suddenly and peacefully . Boston: Twayne, 1984. In subsequent printings, the story was published under her full name. . [165], Alternative social and political systems are a recurring theme in Le Guin's writing. Show & Tell is PSU Graphic Design's lunchtime lecture series where working design professionals stop by to blow our minds with their wisdom. She wed historian and fellow Fulbright scholar Charles Le. [76] She wrote 11 children's picture books, including the Catwings series, between 1979 and 1994, along with The Beginning Place, an adolescent fantasy novel, released in 1980. Become a . The award is managed by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust and a panel of jurors. 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. [16] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Renaissance French and Italian literature from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1951, and graduated as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Le Guin's first novel was "Rocannon's World" in 1966 but she gained fame three years later with "The Left Hand of Darkness," which won the Hugo and Nebula awards top science fiction prizes . [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. [150] This is particularly the case in those works written for a younger audience, such as Earthsea and Annals of the Western Shore. In 2004, Lemman was granted an honorary doctorate from Portland State University. Spivak, Charlotte. Le Guin's mother, Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979; born Theodora Covel Kracaw), had a graduate degree in psychology. [40][84] The latter won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2002. Le Guin often subverted typical speculative fiction tropes, such as through her use of dark-skinned protagonists in Earthsea, and also used unusual stylistic or structural devices in books such as the experimental work Always Coming Home (1985). 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. Research Lib., Org. Rather than being directed by Hayao Miyazaki himself, the film was directed by his son Gor, which disappointed Le Guin. Ursula K. Le Guin (b. [53] This was in marked contrast to the structure of (primarily male-authored) traditional science fiction, which was straightforward and linear. Some portions of the interview have been edited for relevance to PSU history. In recent novels, such as The Other Wind, she grapples with aging and death. This interview originally appeared in Issue 14 of Structo Magazine. Early Asimov, things like that. They brought along their baby daughter, Elisabeth; another daughter, Caroline, and a son . Oral History Commons, Always Coming Home, in particular, opened up literary notions of what comprises a novel by including music, verse, and anthropological notations. For more information, please contact Special Collections at Portland State University Library at: specialcollections@pdx.edu or (503) 725-9883. [4][14][15], Le Guin attended Berkeley High School. [203][204] The American Academy of Arts and Letters made her a member in 2017. Le Guin was highly critical of the miniseries, calling it a "far cry from the Earthsea I envisioned", objecting to the use of white actors for her red-, brown-, and black-skinned characters. Special Collections & University Archives, Interview with School of Health and Physical Education Faculty, Interview with Margaret Dobson (Part 1 of 2), Interview with Margaret Dobson (Part 2 of 2). Le Guin died in January, after 88 years of amazing novels, poems, lectures and other gifts she made to light our way. [65][66] The fiction of the period 1966 to 1974, which also included The Lathe of Heaven, the Hugo Award-winning "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" and the Nebula Award-winning "The Day Before the Revolution",[67] constitutes Le Guin's best-known body of work. In April 2000, the U.S. Library of Congress named Le Guin a Living Legend in the "Writers and Artists" category for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage. . "You decided to deal with the devil", she wrote in her resignation letter. At this point in her life, Le Guin was working as a history teacher at Portland State University (White, 2016). "You could order it out of a catalogue," its owner, the writer Ursula K. Le Guin, told me three years ago. [142] Le Guin's portrayal of gender in Earthsea was also described as perpetuating the notion of a male-dominated world; according to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "Le Guin saw men as the actors and doers in the [world], while women remain the still centre, the well from which they drink". [85][199], Later in her career Le Guin also received accolades recognizing her contributions to literature more generally. This interview was held on February 21, 2019, at the Portland State University Library. [21] She also worked as an editor, and taught undergraduate classes. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing. The Kroebers redwood home in Berkeley was a place of books, music, storytelling, and discussion. 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. My Account Throughout her career, she broke barriers for women writers while. [18] They would live in Portland for the rest of their lives,[21] although Le Guin received further Fulbright grants to travel to London in 1968 and 1975. [6], The Dispossessed, set on the twin planets of Urras and Anarres, features a planned anarchist society depicted as an "ambiguous utopia". The panel said that Le Guin "has inspired four generations of young adults to read beautifully constructed language, visit fantasy worlds that inform them about their own lives, and think about their ideas that are neither easy nor inconsequential". Portland ended up being the couple's permanent home, but for a couple of sojourns Ursula made to London when she received further Fulbright research grants . [85] At the 1995 World Fantasy Convention she won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, a judged recognition of outstanding service to the fantasy field. Ursula at Potlatch 16, photo by Jim Culp. She intentionally used feminine pronouns for all sexually latent Gethenians in her 1995 short story "Coming of Age in Karhide", and in a later reprinting of "Winter's King", which was first published in 1969. [5] Her final publications included the non-fiction collections Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, and the poetry volume So Far So Good: Final Poems 20142018, all of which were released after her death. Why in the future would we assume they are? She was 88. After Le Guin's death in 2018, writer Michael Chabon referred to her as the "greatest American writer of her generation", and said that she had "awed [him] with the power of an unfettered imagination". Public History Commons, Home 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. I can imagine how that wouldnt be a drop in the bucket these days., Dr. [90], Other works from this period included Lavinia (2008), based on a character from Virgil's Aeneid,[91] and the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, consisting of Gifts (2004), Voices (2006), and Powers (2007). > Le Guin is Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University, where he taught for over thirty-five years. [188] Her prose, according to Zadie Smith, was "as elegant and beautiful as any written in the twentieth century". [20] Also in that year, Charles became an instructor in history at Portland State University, and the couple moved to Portland, Oregon, where their son Theodore was born in 1964. They moved to Portland and had three children. [87][88][89] Other collections included Changing Planes, also released in 2002, while the anthologies included The Unreal and the Real (2012),[40] and The Hainish Novels and Stories, a two-volume set of works from the Hainish universe released by the Library of America. [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". 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. Fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin died Monday afternoon in her Portland, Oregon, home, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin said. [226], Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness was adapted for the stage in 1995 by Chicago's Lifeline Theatre. [86] The volume examined unconventional ideas about gender, as well as anarchist themes. Charles Le Guin and Heather Oriana Petrocelli. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli, Dr. [15], The influence of anthropology can be seen in the setting Le Guin chose for a number of her works. [160][161] The process of growing up is depicted as seeing beyond narrow choices the protagonists are presented with by society. It received critical praise,[78] won Le Guin a third Nebula Award for Best Novel,[79] and led to the series being recognized among adult literature. Dr. The world-famous author was heralded as a major female voice in science fiction, but her work transcended the genre. TX Big Read, 2008. Awards and honors: Agents: Short biography: Disambiguation notice: Is this you? [55] Other writers she influenced include Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, as well as David Mitchell, Gaiman, Algis Budrys, Goonan, and Iain Banks. A modified version originally ran in the SFWA Singularity #71. Portland State University, Privacy Other characters, such as Shevek in The Dispossessed, become cultural observers in the course of their journeys on other planets. We will need writers who can remember freedom. 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. [47] The books contained many themes and ideas also present in Le Guin's better known later works, including the "archetypal journey" of a protagonist who undertakes both a physical journey and one of self-discovery, cultural contact and communication, the search for identity, and the reconciliation of opposing forces. [219], In October 2021, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction was announced. [228][229] The opera was composed by Stephen A. Taylor;[228] the libretto has been attributed both to Kate Gale[230] and to Marcia Johnson. Her parents were Alfred Kroeber, a prominent and influential American anthropologist, and the writer Theodora Kroeber, widely known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe in California. > Worm Ouroboros. [85] Her 1996 collection Unlocking the Air and Other Stories was one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Chuck Becker, Alice Lehman, Jack Schendel, Maxine Thomas, Cristine Paschild, and Steve Brannan. [148] During this later period she commented that she considered The Eye of the Heron, published in 1978, to be her first work genuinely centered on a woman. Ursula K. Le Guin died in Portland on January 22, 2018. Le Guin is Professor. 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. 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