Legacy: The Artists Behind The Legends

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American science fiction novelist, short story writer, poet, activist, and essayist, active from the early 1960s up until her death earlier this year in 2018. In 2016, The New York Times described her as “America’s greatest living science fiction writer”, and in her lifetime she went on to win the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the World Fantasy Award, some of which she would earn on more than one occasion. Her futuristic, alien, and imaginary worlds have captivated readers for over a half of a century, addressing concepts quite progressive for her time, such as religion, gender, sexuality, the natural world, and politics. In total, her books have been translated into well over forty languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. But who was this incredible woman beneath the surface? Well, Ursula was her father’s daughter, and he instilled in her a love of alternative thought coupled with a scientific bent. She resided for the majority of her life in Po