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Ursula Le Guin: Short Stories Lesson Plan

About the Author

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most accomplished science fiction/fantasy writers in United States history. She was born in 1929 and grew up in Berkeley, California. Her father was an anthropologist and her mother was a fiction writer. After attending Radcliffe College and Columbia University, she met her husband Charles Le Guin, and they moved to Portland. She stayed in Portland and had several children and grandchildren there. She died in her Portland home in 2018.

Le Guin was a prolific writer. She wrote 23 novels, 11 poetry collections, 13 children’s books, 8 essay collections, 4 volumes of translation, and 12 volumes of short stories and novellas. She wrote over 100 individual...

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