[121], Several of her works have a premise drawn from sociology, psychology, or philosophy. About Candice Goucher, Charles LeGuin, and Linda Walton, In the Balance: Themes in World History (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998), In this interview, former Oregon University System Vice-Chancellor and Portland State University administrator Bill Lemman discusses his career in higher education in Oregon with Clarence Hein. Home Heather Oriana PetrocelliFollow. In a story so conceived, the moral complexity proper to the modern novel need not be sacrificed, nor is there any built-in dead end; thought and intuition can move freely within bounds set only by the terms of the experiment, which may be very large indeed. Le. [231] Le Guin described the effort as a "beautiful opera" in an interview, and expressed hopes that it would be picked up by other producers. [226], Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness was adapted for the stage in 1995 by Chicago's Lifeline Theatre. Please visit http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/rememberpsu_oralhist/ for more Portland State University oral histories.This digital access copy is made available by Portland State University Special Collections as streaming media for personal, educational, and non-commercial use only. Among her works was Ishi in Two Worlds (1961), a biographical volume about Ishi, an Indigenous American who became the last known member of the Yahi tribe after the rest of its members were killed by white colonizers. Her first major work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness, is considered epoch-making for its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity. [6][7] Author Margaret Atwood hailed Le Guin's "sane, smart, crafty and lyrical voice", and wrote that social injustice was a powerful motivation through Le Guin's life. 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. In 1958, the Le Guins settled in Portland, Oregon, where Charles took a permanent position as a professor of French history at Portland State University. Zaneta graduated with a BS in Graphic Design from Portland State University in 2016, and a BFA in Communication Design from PNCA in 2010. Other authors she enjoyed were Lord Dunsany and Lewis Padgett. January 24, 2018. Home 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. 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[31][32], Le Guin once said she was "raised as irreligious as a jackrabbit". [57] The book was influenced by Le Guin's anger over the Vietnam War, and explored themes of colonialism and militarism:[58][59] Le Guin later described it as the "most overt political statement" she had made in a fictional work. Le Guin, in Paris in 1953; they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in 1958, and . A Wizard of Earthsea, published in 1968, was a fantasy novel written initially for teenagers. 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. 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. ), He remembers that there were about three dozen graduate students when he was at Emory. 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. Her speech received widespread media attention within and outside the US, and was broadcast twice by National Public Radio. As a Vanport Extension Center student, he had close relationships with many faculty, including VEC founder Stephen Epler. 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. Critic Harold Bloom placed her in the pantheon of fantasy writers along with J.R.R. "It was unexpected at that moment," Downes-Le Guin said. 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 A USPS Tribute Video to Le Guin can be viewed here on Facebook. In 1953, as a Fulbright Fellow steaming toward France on the Queen Mary, she met historian Charles Le Guin, also a Fulbright Fellow. Charles Le Guin, Ph.D. 1956, has written from Portland, Oregon. [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. [19] A second daughter, Caroline, was born in 1959. The writer Ursula K Le Guin, who has died aged 88, presided over American science fiction for nearly half a century. Private memorial services for her were held in Portland. Ursula K. Le Guin, who beginning in the 1960s upended the male-dominated genres of fantasy and science fiction, crafting novels that grappled with issues of gender inequality, racism and . The award is managed by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust and a panel of jurors. [40][84] The latter won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2002. Le Guin herself took exception to this treatment of children's literature, describing it as "adult chauvinist piggery". 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. Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her . [92] Although Annals of the Western Shore was written for an adolescent audience, the third volume, Powers, received the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2009. Tehanu:The Last Book of Earthsea, for instance, written some twenty years after the original Earthsea trilogy, deliberately veered away from the male-centric heroism of the earlier books and toward the more "ordinary" heroism in the lives of women and children. [173][174] The Word for World is Forest explored the manner in which the structure of society affects the natural environment; in the novel, the natives of the planet of Athshe have adapted their way of life to the ecology of the planet. "[57] Her 1985 book Always Coming Home, described as "her great experiment", included a story told from the perspective of a young protagonist, but also included poems, rough drawings of plants and animals, myths, and anthropological reports from the matriarchal society of the Kesh, a fictional people living in the Napa valley after a catastrophic global flood. Le Guin, the daughter of distinguished anthropologist A.L. [134][135] In a 2001 interview, Le Guin attributed the frequent lack of character illustrations on her book covers to her choice of non-white protagonists. This stuff is so beautiful, and so strange, and I want to do something like that. Dr. In the event that previously unknown information is shared that may change the status of this item, it will be immediately removed from public view until pertinent rights issues are clarified.Contact Special Collections and University Archives at Portland State University Library at: specialcollections@pdx.edu or (503) 725-9883. A series of her stories from the period 19942002 was released in 2002 in the collection The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, along with the novella Paradises Lost. Dr. Charles A. Many of her stories used anthropologists or cultural observers as protagonists, and Taoist ideas about balance and equilibrium have been identified in several writings. "Ursula K. Le Guin. " [207], Several prominent authors acknowledge Le Guin's influence on their own writing. I adored Kipling's Jungle Book. Research Lib., Org. [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. 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. [10], Le Guin's reading included science fiction and fantasy: she and her siblings frequently read issues of Thrilling Wonder Stories and Astounding Science Fiction. [If] you like you can read [a lot of] science fiction, as a thought-experiment. Caroline followed in 1959, and that year, they moved to Portland, where Charles had secured a history instructor position at Portland State University. 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 . [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). Ursula Le Guin's first published work was a poem titled Folksong from the Montayna Province, which appeared in Prairie Poet in 1959. 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". 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. Home Ursula K. Le Guin (b. After earning his degree in Business Administration at the University of Oregon in 1949, he returned to Vanport in 1950 as Assistant Business Manager. Why in the future would we assume they are? She explored alternative political structures in many stories, such as in the philosophical short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973) and the anarchist utopian novel The Dispossessed (1974). 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. About > This interview originally appeared in Issue 14 of Structo Magazine. [55][56] A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness have been described by critic Harold Bloom as Le Guin's masterpieces. Dr. Charles A. 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. [57][127] Examples include Rocannon in Rocannon's World and Genly Ai in The Left Hand of Darkness. Copyright law. [111][112] Many of Le Guin's protagonists, including in The Lathe of Heaven, embody the Taoist ideal of leaving things alone. Le Guin taught writing workshops from Vermont to Australia, including those at Pacific University in Forest Grove and Portland State University, where she was a frequent teacher at Haystack, and at Fishtrap in Wallowa County. [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. Le Guin revisited this essay in 1988, and acknowledged that gender was central to the novel;[53] she also apologized for depicting Gethenians solely in heterosexual relationships. 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. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. In 2004, Lemman was granted an honorary doctorate from Portland State University. [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 in Paris during their Fulbright Fellowships 1958 Moves with her husband and children to Portland, thanks to Charles's teaching position at Portland State College (now Portland State University) 1968 Publishes A Wizard of Earthsea [42] Her first professional publication was the short story "April in Paris" in 1962 in Fantastic Science Fiction,[43] and seven other stories followed in the next few years, in Fantastic or Amazing Stories. [72] The Language of the Night, a collection of essays, was released in 1979,[73] and Le Guin also published Wild Angels, a volume of poetry, in 1975. [188] Her prose, according to Zadie Smith, was "as elegant and beautiful as any written in the twentieth century". Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults. [54] That volume is specifically cited as leaving a large legacy; in discussing it, literary critic Harold Bloom wrote "Le Guin, more than Tolkien, has raised fantasy into high literature, for our time". 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 . The Oregon History Wayfinder is an interactive map that identifies significant places, people, and events in Oregon history. Le Guin is Professor. The fledgling college was still small in 1959, but Portland State was fertile ground for intellectual collaboration and camaraderie among faculty across academic departments. 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. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. The U.S. Library of Congress named her a Living Legend in 2000, and in 2014, she won the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. [105][106] In particular, the shadow in A Wizard of Earthsea is seen as the Shadow archetype from Jungian psychology, representing Ged's pride, fear, and desire for power. Acknowledgements and thanks to RAPS, Retirement Association of Portland State University, for biographical information on Mr. Lemman. Awards, and three Jupiter Awards. Calendar Location Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205 Cost / Admission $25 and up Contact Ethan Sperry esperry@pdx.edu Wednesday, June 13 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Literary . Portland State University, Privacy [6] Academic and author Joyce Carol Oates highlighted Le Guin's "outspoken sense of justice, decency, and common sense", and called her "one of the great American writers and a visionary artist whose work will long endure". The PSU community connected faculty and students to cultural as well as academic resources in Portland including music, theater, and the arts, and was vitally involved in political and creative movements. [22] She taught courses at Tulane University, Bennington College, and Stanford University, among others. The Left Hand of Darkness, published in 1969, was among the first books in the genre now known as feminist science fiction, and is the most famous examination of androgyny in science fiction. In 1953, as a Fulbright Fellow steaming toward France on the Queen Mary, she met historian Charles Le Guin, also a Fulbright Fellow. Speculative fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin lived in northwest Portland from 1958 until her death in 2018, having moved to the city after her husband, the historian Charles Le Guin, was hired as an instructor at Portland State University. [5] Not all of her works received as positive a reception; The Compass Rose was among the volumes that had a mixed reaction, while the Science Fiction Encyclopedia described The Eye of the Heron as "an over-diagrammatic political fable whose translucent simplicity approaches self-parody". [139], Le Guin's attitude towards gender and feminism evolved considerably over time. [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. [57], Several scholars have commented that Le Guin's writing was influenced by Carl Jung, and specifically by the idea of Jungian archetypes. Always Coming Home, in particular, opened up literary notions of what comprises a novel by including music, verse, and anthropological notations. Carmina Burana | Portland State University PSU Currently Carmina Burana Carmina Burana Monday, February 27, 2023 - 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM iCalendar Google Calendar Outlook Outlook Online Yahoo! 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. Public History Commons, Home [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. 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. [101] Her father Alfred Kroeber is considered a pioneer in the field, and was a director of the University of California Museum of Anthropology: as a consequence of his research, Le Guin was exposed to anthropology and cultural exploration as a child. He and Thomas E. Mullen (Ph.D. 1959) have remained good friends. [53] This was in marked contrast to the structure of (primarily male-authored) traditional science fiction, which was straightforward and linear. Le Guin, whose novels - often set on. Awards and honors: Agents: Short biography: Disambiguation notice: Is this you? 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. Remembering Portland State [15], Le Guin's fellow authors also praised her writing. The house where Le Guin has lived for more than fifty years has, in certain respects, come to resemble its owner. Ursula Le Guin American author of novels, children's books, is seen in a Sept. 9, 2001 photo at home in Portland, Ore. It was also created as a gift to Ursula K. Le Guin for her collection. 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. She was 88. Early attempts to publish her fiction met with little success, and Le Guin's first published writings were poems. [9][205] Her writing encompassed speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. 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. She argued that the term "soft science fiction" was divisive, and implied a narrow view of what constitutes valid science fiction. [137] Which sex they adopt can depend on context and relationships. [57][101][102][103][104] She described living with her father's friends and acquaintances as giving her the experience of the other. PSU Oral Histories [92][93] In her final years, Le Guin largely turned away from fiction, and produced a number of essays, poems, and some translation. [99] Several scholars state that the influence of mythology, which Le Guin enjoyed reading as a child, is also visible in much of her work: for example, the short story "The Dowry of Angyar" is described as a retelling of a Norse myth. [46] These stories were largely ignored by critics. Her reputation as an author of the first rank, and her role as ambassador. On their return to the United States, she abandoned her graduate studies to raise a family; the Le Guins eventually settled in Portland, where Charles Le Guin taught history at Portland State . The PSU community connected faculty and students to cultural as well as academic resources in Portland including music, theater, and the arts, and was vitally involved in political and creative movements.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. Le Guin Charles Alfred Le Guin edit Statements instance of human 0 references sex or gender male 0 references country of citizenship United States of America 0 references given name Charles series ordinal 1 0 references Alfred series ordinal 2 0 references family name Le Guin She started writing in her sixties and became a successful author. 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. A number of Hainish novels, The Dispossessed prominent among them, explored such a process of reconciliation. As the colleges chief fiscal officer, Lemman fostered partnerships with city and federal governments to develop the downtown campus and worked to bring student housing to Portland State. I think Harvey Young outlived them all I know, much as I admired the others, he was one of the sweetest men I ever knew, the sort of professor I would most like to have been. He compared the universitys present graduate stipends with the support available when he was at Emory: In 1950 I had a scholarship of $750 dollars a term, which was immediately returned to cover my tuition. Many of the protagonists in Earthsea were dark-skinned individuals, in comparison to the white-skinned heroes more traditionally used; some of the antagonists, in contrast, were white-skinned, a switching of race roles that has been remarked upon by multiple critics. 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). [57], Le Guin continued to develop themes of equilibrium and coming-of-age in the next two installments of the Earthsea series, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, published in 1971 and 1972, respectively. Fortunately, though extrapolation is an element in science fiction, it isn't the name of the game by any means. In a 2008 interview, she said she considered the 1979 version as "the only good adaptation to film" of her work to date. Alice Lehman describes the program's move downtown from cramped quarters in the former Lincoln High School into the new Health and Physical Education building (Peter Stott Center) in 1966, and the development of women's collegiate athletics programs at PSU and in the state. [63][64] Several of her speculative fiction short stories from the period, including her first published story, were later anthologized in the 1975 collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters. [129], Several of Le Guin's works have featured stylistic or structural features that were unusual or subversive. 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. She won eight Hugo Awards from twenty-six nominations, and six Nebula Awards from eighteen nominations, including four Nebula Awards for Best Novel from six nominations, more than any other writer. 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. However, as Le Guin rose to popularity in science fiction, she gradually abandoned this job. Special Collections & University Archives 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. In the space of six years came A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and The Dispossessed (1974). [219], In October 2021, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction was announced. 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. [2] Commentators have noted that the Earthsea novels specifically received less critical attention because they were considered children's books. [40] Even the critically well-received The Left Hand of Darkness, in addition to critique from feminists,[185] was described by Alexei Panshin as a "flat failure". We will need writers who can remember freedom. In recent novels, such as The Other Wind, she grapples with aging and death. She grapples with aging and death to do something like that in Portland Disambiguation notice: is this you from. 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