A project of the Oregon Historical Society, 2020 Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society, The Oregon Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. 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. 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. Le Guin is Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University, where he taught for over thirty-five years. Le Guin died in January, after 88 years of amazing novels, poems, lectures and other gifts she made to light our way. 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. Her best-known fantasies, the six Books of Earthsea, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into sixteen languages. > Special Collections & University Archives [75] In 1985 she published the experimental work Always Coming Home. [225] In 2004, the Sci Fi Channel adapted the first two books of the Earthsea trilogy as the miniseries Legend of Earthsea. The inaugural shortlist was announced on July 28, 2022. [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. [17] As a child she had been interested in biology and poetry, but had been limited in her choice of career by her difficulties with mathematics. 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. 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.The fledgling college was still small in 1959, but Portland State was fertile ground for intellectual collaboration and camaraderie among faculty across academic departments. 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. [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. And then when I got older I found Lord Dunsany. [47] The first two were each published as half of an "Ace Double": two novels bound into a paperback and sold as a single low-cost volume. advertisement advertisement Career Some portions of the interview have been edited for relevance to PSU history. Though the latter two were set in the fictional country of Orsinia, the stories were realistic fiction rather than fantasy or science fiction. I read all the famous fantasies Alice in Wonderland, and Wind in the Willows, and Kipling. [15], Le Guin's fellow authors also praised her writing. [92][93] In her final years, Le Guin largely turned away from fiction, and produced a number of essays, poems, and some translation. The play opened May 2, 2013, and ran until June 16, 2013, in Portland, Oregon. [217] Le Guin is also credited with inspiring several female science fiction authors in the 1970s, including Vonda McIntyre. Variables are the spice of life. This recognition allows them to take a third choice, and leave. Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults. 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). 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. 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 attributed the revocation to Lem's criticism of American science fiction and willingness to live in the Eastern Bloc, and said she felt reluctant to receive an award "for a story about political intolerance from a group that had just displayed political intolerance". [15], The influence of anthropology can be seen in the setting Le Guin chose for a number of her works. Dr. [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". 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 . [42], Ace Books released Rocannon's World, Le Guin's first published novel, in 1966. 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. [46] These stories were largely ignored by critics. 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. was published in 1974, Le Guin was on her way to becoming the most honored woman in the history of science fiction and fantasy. It is far too rationalist and simplistic to satisfy the imaginative mind, whether the writer's or the reader's. PSU Oral Histories. The Oregon History Wayfinder is an interactive map that identifies significant places, people, and events in Oregon history. Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber, attended Radcliffe College . 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. 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. [27] The Lathe of Heaven, one of LeGuin's most renowned novels, is set in a future Portland. "It was unexpected at that moment," Downes-Le Guin said. 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. [40][143][144] Le Guin initially defended her writing; in a 1976 essay "Is Gender Necessary?" The stamp was designed by Donato Gionacola. During that time, Ursula taught French and worked as a secretary. When McIntyre established a writers' workshop in Seattle in 1971, Le Guin was one of the instructors. Her speech received widespread media attention within and outside the US, and was broadcast twice by National Public Radio. Literary critic Elaine Showalter suggested that Le Guin "set the pace as a writer for women unlearning silence, fear, and self-doubt",[6] while writer Brian Attebery stated that "[Le Guin] invented us: science fiction and fantasy critics like me but also poets and essayists and picture book writers and novelists". [218] Film-maker Arwen Curry began production on a documentary about Le Guin in 2009, filming "dozens" of hours of interviews with the author as well as many other writers and artists who have been inspired by her. Cummins, Elizabeth. Several of Le Guins novels and stories make use of the Oregon landscape. [81] In the same year she published the story suite Four Ways to Forgiveness, and followed it up with "Old Music and the Slave Women", a fifth, connected, story in 1999. At this point in her life, Le Guin was working as a history teacher at Portland State University (White, 2016). > I adored Kipling's Jungle Book. 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. Le Guin wins big honor from National Book Foundation", "Beloved Fantasy Author Ursula Le Guin Dead at 88", "Portland literary icon Ursula K. 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"[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. ", Le Guin read both classic and speculative fiction widely in her youth. She was 88. Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her . 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. [149], Le Guin explores coming of age, and moral development more broadly, in many of her writings. [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". She was also a board member of Literary Arts and the Multnomah County Library. [191] For her novels alone she won five Locus Awards, four Nebula Awards, two Hugo Awards, and one World Fantasy Award, and won each of those awards in short fiction categories as well. Charles Le Guin, author of Home-Concealed Woman: The Diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin, 1901-1913, on LibraryThing . > For more information, please contact Special Collections at Portland State University Library at: specialcollections@pdx.edu or (503) 725-9883. 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. [81] These stories included "Coming of Age in Karhide" (1995), which explored growing into adulthood and was set on the same planet as The Left Hand of Darkness. PORTLAND, OR - Ursula Le Guin, a beloved author of science fiction, fantasy, and more, died at her Portland home on Monday. 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. [2] Le Guin said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".[3]. [3] Le Guin's transgression of conventional boundaries of genre led to literary criticism of Le Guin becoming "Balkanized", particularly between scholars of children's literature and speculative fiction. [156] Reviewers have described the ending of the novel, wherein Ged finally accepts the shadow as a part of himself, as a rite of passage. Critic Harold Bloom placed her in the pantheon of fantasy writers along with J.R.R. 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's writing was enormously influential in the field of speculative fiction, and has been the subject of intense critical attention. [225] The third and fourth Earthsea books were used as the basis of Tales from Earthsea, released in 2006. Le Guin herself took exception to this treatment of children's literature, describing it as "adult chauvinist piggery". Portland State University, Privacy In recent novels, such as The Other Wind, she grapples with aging and death. Her father was the University of California's. [4] For the latter volume, Le Guin won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, becoming the first woman to do so. [80], Le Guin returned to the Hainish Cycle in the 1990s after a lengthy hiatus with the publication of a series of short stories, beginning with "The Shobies' Story" in 1990. 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! 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. [196][197][198] In 2013, she was given the Eaton Award by the University of California, Riverside, for lifetime achievement in science fiction. [83] In 2000 she published The Telling, which would be her final Hainish novel, and the next year released Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind, the last two Earthsea books. [221][222], Le Guin's works have been adapted for radio,[223][224] film, television, and the stage. When they returned home, Charles Le Guin took up a position as a history lecturer at Portland State University and Le Guin concentrated on raising their children. 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 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. An exhibition showcasing the work of our prize winners will be on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University from February 28 through April 29, 2023. Early attempts to publish her fiction met with little success, and Le Guin's first published writings were poems. [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. Lot 1078, OSA 1, folder 3. [215] This view was echoed in The Paris Review, which wrote that "No single work did more to upend the genre's conventions than The Left Hand of Darkness",[33] while White argued that it was one of the seminal works of science fiction, as important as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). 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 . The Kroebers redwood home in Berkeley was a place of books, music, storytelling, and discussion. It was also created as a gift to Ursula K. Le Guin for her collection. 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.". [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". LeGuin's novels and stories explore sexism, racism, nationalism, and the ambiguities of technological progress. [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. [165], Alternative social and political systems are a recurring theme in Le Guin's writing. My Account In subsequent printings, the story was published under her full name. [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. 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. Heather Oriana PetrocelliFollow. She was voted a Gandalf Grand Master Award by the World Science Fiction Society in 1979. 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. Curry launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to finish the documentary in early 2016 after winning a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. [62] Also set in the Hainish universe, the story explored anarchism and utopianism. Le Guin, Charles and Petrocelli, Heather Oriana, "Interview with Charles Le Guin" (2017). 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. [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. Her first professional publication was the short story "April in Paris" in 1962, while her first published novel was Rocannon's World, released by Ace Books in 1966. [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. The world-famous author was heralded as a major female voice in science fiction, but her work transcended the genre. Reviewer Jack Helbig at the Chicago Reader wrote that the "adaptation is intelligent and well crafted but ultimately unsatisfying", in large measure because it is extremely difficult to compress a complex 300-page novel into a two-hour stage presentation. [5] In 2016, The New York Times described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer". View Learning Activity Hist 103 Week 3 from HIS 103 at Ashford University. Le. January 24, 2018. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing. [107][108][109] Le Guin discussed her interpretation of this archetype, and her interest in the dark and repressed parts of the psyche, in a 1974 lecture. 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. [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. [226], Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness was adapted for the stage in 1995 by Chicago's Lifeline Theatre. She met her husband, Charles Le Guin, who . Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. 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. Awards and honors: Agents: Short biography: Disambiguation notice: Is this you? This includes an equilibrium between land and sea, implicit in the name "Earthsea", between people and their natural environment,[113] and a larger cosmic equilibrium, which wizards are tasked with maintaining. Photo by Moira McAuliffe / GobQ LLC. The anthropologists of the Hainish universe try not to meddle with the cultures they encounter, while one of the earliest lessons Ged learns in A Wizard of Earthsea is not to use magic unless it is absolutely necessary. [39][40] Between 1951 and 1961 she also wrote five novels, all set in Orsinia, which were rejected by publishers on the grounds that they were inaccessible. Born in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929, Le Guin attended both Radcliffe College and Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Paris. The writer Ursula K Le Guin, who has died aged 88, presided over American science fiction for nearly half a century. [137] Which sex they adopt can depend on context and relationships. Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. | Ursula K. Le Guin, in the introduction to the 1976 edition of The Left Hand of Darkness. [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. 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. Le Guin died . [85] Her 1996 collection Unlocking the Air and Other Stories was one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Zaneta graduated with a BS in Graphic Design from Portland State University in 2016, and a BFA in Communication Design from PNCA in 2010. ( Foto: Jasin Akgul / AFP ) PORTLAND, OREGON . 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. [57], Several scholars have commented that Le Guin's writing was influenced by Carl Jung, and specifically by the idea of Jungian archetypes. [169] Unlike classical utopias, the society of Anarres is portrayed as neither perfect nor static; the protagonist Shevek finds himself traveling to Urras to pursue his research. The term "magic realism" had not yet found currency, and her stories were perhaps uncategorizable. 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. [211] The notion that names can exert power is a theme in the Earthsea series; critics have suggested that this inspired Hayao Miyazaki's use of the idea in his 2001 film Spirited Away. Le Guin coined the name "ansible" for an instantaneous interstellar communication device in 1966; the term was later adopted by several other writers, including Orson Scott Card in the Ender Series and Neil Gaiman in a script for a Doctor Who episode. The fledgling college was still small in 1959, but Portland State was fertile ground for intellectual collaboration and camaraderie among faculty across academic departments. Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929.Her father, Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960), was an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. [53], Commentators have also described Le Guin as being influential in the field of literature more generally. She was 88-years-old. Le Guin, the daughter of distinguished anthropologist A.L. she wrote that gender was secondary to the primary theme of loyalty in The Left Hand of Darkness. Le Guin is notable for her willingness to revisit earlier works in response to her own maturing thought and especially her growing feminism. "[151] She also said that fantasy was best suited as a medium for describing coming of age, because exploring the subconscious was difficult using the language of "rational daily life". [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". . Spivak, Charlotte. Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminine sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like The Left Hand Of Darkness and the . [33] The experiences of Ishi, in particular, were influential on Le Guin, and elements of his story have been identified in works such as Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, and The Word for World Is Forest and The Dispossessed. 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). I believe I was the sixth History Ph.D. at Emory and the first in European History, and I think I am now the oldest living Emory History PhD. 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". Rather than being directed by Hayao Miyazaki himself, the film was directed by his son Gor, which disappointed Le Guin. > Candice Goucher, Charles LeGuin, and Linda Walton, In the Balance: Themes in World History (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998), Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. [31][32], Le Guin once said she was "raised as irreligious as a jackrabbit". Those two joined the Tap Dance (five), Mystery Message (one) and Western Wear (four) stamps (all presented in last month's journal . 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. In Gifts, Orrec and Gry realize that the powers their people possess can be used in two ways: for control and dominion, or for healing and nurturing. [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. [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. University Archivist Cris Paschild conducted the interview, which was held at the Portland State University Library on February 12, 2014. [85][189] Le Guin won twenty-four Locus Awards,[85] voted for by subscribers of Locus Magazine,[190] and as of 2019[update] was joint third for total wins, as well as second behind Neil Gaiman, for the number of wins for works of fiction. 221", "Le Guin accuses Authors Guild of 'deal with the devil', "My letter of resignation from the Authors Guild", "Ursula K Le Guin launches broadside on Amazon's 'sell it fast, sell it cheap' policy", "Writers unite in campaign against 'thuggish' Amazon", "Ursula K. 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