Her father was the University of California's. 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. 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. She was fond of myths and legends, particularly Norse mythology, and of Native American legends that her father would narrate. In Oregon, Willamette Writers honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and she received two Endeavour Awards from Oregon Science Fiction Conventions and the Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award from Oregon Literary Arts. I read the story "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard", and it just made me go, "Wow! Her 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven has been released on film twice, in 1979 by WNET with Le Guin's participation, and then in 2002 by the A&E Network. [226], Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness was adapted for the stage in 1995 by Chicago's Lifeline Theatre. [2][40] Her books sold many millions of copies, and were translated into more than 40 languages; several remain in print many decades after their first publication. When McIntyre established a writers' workshop in Seattle in 1971, Le Guin was one of the instructors. > 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. Le Guin was born in 1929, to Theodora and Alfred Kroeber. The society, created by settlers from Urras, is materially poorer than the wealthy society of Urras, but more ethically and morally advanced. January 24, 2018. [141][145][146] "Coming of Age in Karhide" was later anthologized in the 2002 collection The Birthday of the World, which contained six other stories featuring unorthodox sexual relationships and marital arrangements. She describes her early fiction as "just a little off." [59] The colonizing human society, in contrast, is depicted as destructive and uncaring; in depicting it, Le Guin also critiqued colonialism and imperialism, driven partly by her disapproval for U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War. She was 88. Many of her stories used anthropologists or cultural observers as protagonists, and Taoist ideas about balance and equilibrium have been identified in several writings. Accompanying them were two former School of Education faculty, Maxine Thomas and Steve Brannan. [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. Cultural anthropology, Taoism, feminism, and the writings of Carl Jung all had a strong influence on Le Guin's work. 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. View Learning Activity Hist 103 Week 3 from HIS 103 at Ashford University. 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. 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. [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. As a Vanport Extension Center student, he had close relationships with many faculty, including VEC founder Stephen Epler. [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. 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. A son, Theodore, was born in 1964. 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. Dick. She argued that the term "soft science fiction" was divisive, and implied a narrow view of what constitutes valid science fiction. The abridged transcript of this interview is available for download. Le Guin herself took exception to this treatment of children's literature, describing it as "adult chauvinist piggery". [158][159], Each volume of Annals of the Western Shore also describes the coming of age of its protagonists,[160] and features explorations of being enslaved to one's own power. It's late 2014 and Le Guinthe writer who invented . I retired in 1995, finished a book with two colleagues (In The Balance: Themes in Global History, 1998), and have since devoted myself mainly to reading any and everything and gardening. [176] Set in the Hainish universe, the five stories together examine revolution and reconstruction in a slave-owning society. It cannot be reproduced in any form, distributed or screened for commercial purposes.It is made accessible because of one or more of the following situations: the rights are owned by State Board of Higher Education, on behalf of Portland State University; Portland State University has permission to make it accessible; it is made accessible for education and research purposes under \"fair use\" under U.S. Atwood considers A Wizard of Earthsea one of the "wellsprings" of fantasy literature,[209] and modern writers have credited the book for the idea of a "wizard school", later made famous by the Harry Potter series of books,[210] and with popularizing the trope of a boy wizard, also present in Harry Potter. [6], The Dispossessed, set on the twin planets of Urras and Anarres, features a planned anarchist society depicted as an "ambiguous utopia". [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. [6], The accolades Le Guin has received include numerous annual awards for individual works. 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. [149], Le Guin explores coming of age, and moral development more broadly, in many of her writings. Awards and honors: Agents: Short biography: Disambiguation notice: Is this you? 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. [133], A number of Le Guin's writings, including the Earthsea series, challenged the conventions of epic fantasies and myths. [19] According to Le Guin, the marriage signaled the "end of the doctorate" for her. [219], In October 2021, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction was announced. Dr. Charles A. She was active in the literary and political community of Portland and Oregon, including joining peace vigils at Pioneer Courthouse Square and giving early support for both Fishtrap and Oregon Literary Arts. Born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, Ursula Le Guin is the daughter of the writer Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Award-winning US science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K Le Guin has died, aged 88, her family said. Poets, visionaries the realists of a larger reality. According to Bloom, Le Guin was a "visionary who set herself against all brutality, discrimination, and exploitation". [114] Another prominent Taoist idea is the reconciliation of opposites such as light and dark, or good and evil. Photographed in Portland, OR, USA, September 18 . Lot 1078, OSA 1, folder 3. [and] a gathering place for scientists, writers, students, and California Indians. 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. Critical appreciation for Le Guins work is near-universal. 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! [22] She taught courses at Tulane University, Bennington College, and Stanford University, among others. Le Guin published eleven books of poetry, five collections of essays and literary criticism, thirteen books for children, four works of translation, several plays and screenplays, the libretto for an opera, twenty-three novels, and twelve volumes of short storiesfiction in all its various forms, including realistic fiction. | She started writing in her sixties and became a successful author. [32][85] Her third Earthsea novel, The Farthest Shore, won the 1973 National Book Award for Young People's Literature,[192] and she was a finalist for ten Mythopoeic Awards, nine in Fantasy and one for Scholarship. Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. [10][18], In 1953, while traveling to France aboard the Queen Mary, Ursula met historian Charles Le Guin. [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. [108] She stated elsewhere that she had never read Jung before writing the first Earthsea books. University Archivist Cris Paschild conducted the interview, which was held at the Portland State University Library on February 12, 2014. Michael O'Rourke interviewed Dr. Margaret Dobson on November 22 and 29, 2010, at the Portland State University Library. [85], From 2002 onwards several collections and anthologies of Le Guin's work were published. [53] The book was Le Guin's first to address feminist issues,[54] and according to scholar Donna White, it "stunned the science fiction critics"; it won both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards for best novel, making Le Guin the first woman to win these awards, and a number of other accolades. Le Guin is Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University, where he taught for over thirty-five years. [227] Paradises Lost was adapted into an opera by the opera program of the University of Illinois. She expressed a deep interest in Taoism and Buddhism, saying that Taoism gave her a "handle on how to look at life" during her adolescent years. 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). Le Guin refused a Nebula Award for her story "The Diary of the Rose" in 1977, in protest at the Science Fiction Writers of America's revocation of Stanisaw Lem's membership. 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. Acknowledgements and thanks to RAPS, Retirement Association of Portland State University, for biographical information on Mr. Lemman. [221][222], Le Guin's works have been adapted for radio,[223][224] film, television, and the stage. . "You decided to deal with the devil", she wrote in her resignation letter. [180][181], Le Guin received rapid recognition after the publication of The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969, and by the 1970s she was among the best known writers in the field. [127] This is particularly true in the stories set in the Hainish universe, an alternative reality in which humans did not evolve on Earth, but on Hain. Several of her protagonists are anthropologists or ethnologists exploring a world alien to them. This interview was recorded at the Portland State University Library on February 21, 2019. Remembering Portland State [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. The unabridged recording and transcript are available through Portland State University Archives at the PSU Library. The 56-year-old novelist has blithely bounced from planet to planet and, in her Hainish cycle, brought into being a storybook universe. Le Guin and Dick attended the same high-school, but did not know each other; Le Guin later described her novel The Lathe of Heaven as an homage to him. Ursula K. Le Guin, in the introduction to the 1976 edition of The Left Hand of Darkness. [50][52], Her next novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, was a Hainish universe story exploring themes of gender and sexuality on a fictional planet where humans have no fixed sex. Le Guin attended public schools in Berkeley, graduated from Radcliffe College, earned a Master's degree at Columbia University, and began pursuing a doctorate in French and Italian Renaissance literature. Ursula K. Le Guin signing books at at Portland State University, May 2010. Ursula K. Le Guin died in Portland on January 22, 2018. Throughout her career, she broke barriers for women writers while. Calendar Location Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205 Cost / Admission $25 and up Contact Ethan Sperry esperry@pdx.edu They brought along their baby daughter, Elisabeth; another daughter, Caroline, and a son . [53], Commentators have also described Le Guin as being influential in the field of literature more generally. The fledgling college was still small in 1959, but Portland State was fertile ground for intellectual collaboration and camaraderie among faculty across academic departments. The best-selling writer passed away on Monday at her home in Portland, Oregon, after a. [8][10][11], Le Guin had three older brothers: Karl, who became a literary scholar, Theodore, and Clifton. [55] According to scholar Donna White, Le Guin was a "major voice in American letters", whose writing was the subject of many volumes of literary critique, more than two hundred scholarly articles, and a number of dissertations. A lover of mythology, Le Guin went on to attend Radcliffe College, and later graduated with an MA from Columbia University. The world-famous author was heralded as a major female voice in science fiction, but her work transcended the genre. https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/30548, Education Commons, Portland State University, Privacy [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. . It cannot be reproduced, distributed, or screened for commercial purposes. Le Guin died in January, after 88 years of amazing novels, poems, lectures and other gifts she made to light our way. | 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 . [6] Le Guin's own literary criticism proved influential; her 1973 essay "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" led to renewed interest in the work of Kenneth Morris, and eventually to the publication of a posthumous novel by Morris. [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. [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. A member of the class of 1947 of Berkeley High School, Le Guin was the daughter of anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Quinn Kroeber. 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. [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. Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like "The Left Hand of Darkness" and. > Social and political themes, including race, gender, sexuality, and coming of age were prominent in her writing. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. [2][119] In 1976, literature scholar George Slusser criticized the "silly publication classification designating the original series as 'children's literature'",[120] while in Barbara Bucknall's opinion Le Guin "can be read, like Tolkien, by ten-year-olds and by adults. The award is managed by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust and a panel of jurors. [61] Her 1974 novel The Dispossessed again won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards for best novel, making her the first person to win both awards for each of two books. The Dispossessed and Always Coming Home revived and reshaped the forms of utopian fiction. [150] This is particularly the case in those works written for a younger audience, such as Earthsea and Annals of the Western Shore. advertisement advertisement Career [111][112] Many of Le Guin's protagonists, including in The Lathe of Heaven, embody the Taoist ideal of leaving things alone. And then when I got older I found Lord Dunsany. [101][128] Le Guin's writing often examines alien cultures, and particularly the human cultures from planets other than Earth in the Hainish universe. The inaugural shortlist was announced on July 28, 2022. TX Big Read, 2008. Become a . Jack Schendel, Dean Emeritus of the School of Health and Human Performance, describes the mission and achievements of the School in providing specialized professional training for students in various fields of health education, and the circumstances leading to the closure of the School in 1992. [85] She won her final Hugo award a year after her death, for a complete edition of Earthsea, illustrated by Charles Vess; the same volume also won a Locus award. Ursula Le Guin American author of novels, children's books, is seen in a Sept. 9, 2001 photo at home in Portland, Ore. She is survived by her. 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. She studied at Radcliffe College and Columbia University. They raised three children. [157] To Mike Cadden the book was a convincing tale "to a reader as young and possibly as headstrong as Ged, and therefore sympathetic to 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. 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. 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. 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. Dr. Charles A. [225] The third and fourth Earthsea books were used as the basis of Tales from Earthsea, released in 2006. she wrote that gender was secondary to the primary theme of loyalty in The Left Hand of Darkness. [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". She met her husband, Charles Le Guin, who . [85][194] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted her in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers. Mythology and legend were an integral part of the Kroebers family life, and Le Guin remembers that she "was brought up to think and to question and to enjoy.". 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.". Le Guin's writing was enormously influential in the field of speculative fiction, and has been the subject of intense critical attention. [112] Taoist influence is evident in Le Guin's depiction of equilibrium in the world of Earthsea: the archipelago is depicted as being based on a delicate balance, which is disrupted by somebody in each of the first three novels. Le Guin, in Paris in 1953; they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in 1958, and . Three emeritus faculty members from Portland State's School of Health and Human Performance met for this oral history interview: Chuck Becker, Alice Lehman, and Jack Schendel. [33][34], In December 2009, Le Guin resigned from the Authors Guild in protest over its endorsement of Google's book digitization project. She met the historian Charles Le Guin while enroute to France on a Fulbright scholarship, and they married shortly afterward. [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. Le Guin's mother, Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979; born Theodora Covel Kracaw), had a graduate degree in psychology. She received numerous accolades, including eight Hugos, six Nebulas, and twenty-two Locus Awards, and in 2003 became the second woman honored as a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Curry launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to finish the documentary in early 2016 after winning a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Boston: Twayne, 1984. Le Guin once recalled that their summer house was "an old, tumble-down ranch in the Napa Valley . [196][197][198] In 2013, she was given the Eaton Award by the University of California, Riverside, for lifetime achievement in science fiction. Special Collections & University Archives 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. Ursula K. Le Guin. Accessibility Statement [195] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named her its 20th Grand Master in 2003: she was the second, and as of 2019[update] one of only six, women to receive that honor. "Ursula K. Le Guin. " 6. juni, 2021. [26], Le Guin died on January 22, 2018, at her home in Portland, at the age of 88. [177][178] According to Rochelle, the stories examine a society that has the potential to build a "truly human community", made possible by the Ekumen's recognition of the slaves as human beings, thus offering them the prospect of freedom and the possibility of utopia, brought about through revolution. Dr. 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 . He is an emeritus member of the Alumni Board and a founding member of the Friends of the Library. 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). Chuck Becker, Alice Lehman, Jack Schendel, Maxine Thomas, Cristine Paschild, and Steve Brannan. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. "[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". [27] The Lathe of Heaven, one of LeGuin's most renowned novels, is set in a future Portland. [160][161] The process of growing up is depicted as seeing beyond narrow choices the protagonists are presented with by society. [220] The prize's inaugural winner was announced on October 21, 2022, Le Guin's birthday. The writer Ursula K Le Guin, who has died aged 88, presided over American science fiction for nearly half a century. 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. [121], Several of her works have a premise drawn from sociology, psychology, or philosophy. A number of Hainish novels, The Dispossessed prominent among them, explored such a process of reconciliation. It was also created as a gift to Ursula K. Le Guin for her collection. | Le Guin, the daughter of distinguished anthropologist A.L. 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. Cummins, Elizabeth. 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". Charles Le Guin, Ph.D. 1956, has written from Portland, Oregon. [127] In discovering these "alien" worlds, Le Guin's protagonists, and by extension the readers, also journey into themselves, and challenge the nature of what they consider "alien" and what they consider "native". [87][88][89] Other collections included Changing Planes, also released in 2002, while the anthologies included The Unreal and the Real (2012),[40] and The Hainish Novels and Stories, a two-volume set of works from the Hainish universe released by the Library of America. Le Guin often subverted typical speculative fiction tropes, such as through her use of dark-skinned protagonists in Earthsea, and also used unusual stylistic or structural devices in books such as the experimental work Always Coming Home (1985). [40][94][95], Once I learned to read, I read everything. [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. Charles Le Guin, author of Home-Concealed Woman: The Diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin, 1901-1913, on LibraryThing . 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