![]() ![]() The life of the mind can be a very lively one. ![]() But who was the person behind the massive library of books? How was she able to create worlds that were so incredibly fantastical but also so realistic and believable? She’s considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century for a reason. She died in 2018, but has left a fingerprint on the literary world, inspiring authors who have themselves been included as some of the greats. I think her Earthsea Cycle is just about one of the most recommended books out there, especially to young readers. Needless to say, the woman was prolific when it came to writing, and she has the awards to show just how skilled she was at it. In her lifetime she published 23 novels, 12 short story volumes, 11 poetry volumes, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four translated works. If you wanted to, depending on your reading speed, you could probably dedicate an entire year to reading Ursula K. ![]() ![]() Le Guin in her acceptance speech for the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014 We’ll need writers who can remember freedom - poets, visionaries - realists of a larger reality. Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. ![]()
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