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. [168] Fellow author Kathleen Ann Goonan wrote that Le Guin's work confronted the "paradigm of insularity toward the suffering of people, other living beings, and resources", and explored "life-respecting sustainable alternatives". Dr. Charles A. The fledgling college was still small in 1959, but Portland State was fertile ground for intellectual collaboration and camaraderie among faculty across academic departments. [225] The third and fourth Earthsea books were used as the basis of Tales from Earthsea, released in 2006. After earning his degree in Business Administration at the University of Oregon in 1949, he returned to Vanport in 1950 as Assistant Business Manager. She was fond of myths and legends, particularly Norse mythology, and of Native American legends that her father would narrate. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. [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. [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. The Le Guins have lived in Portland for more than four . Please visit http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/rememberpsu_oralhist/ for more Portland State University oral histories.This digital access copy is made available by Portland State University Special Collections as streaming media for personal, educational, and non-commercial use only. 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. Those two joined the Tap Dance (five), Mystery Message (one) and Western Wear (four) stamps (all presented in last month's journal . London: Routledge, 2004. 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.". The unabridged recording and transcript are available through Portland State University Archives at the PSU Library. 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. Two releases in late July were single issues, one featuring author and poet Ursula K. Le Guin and the other featuring Raven Story, an important traditional story among Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. 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. 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. My Account The Los Angeles Times commented in 2009 that after the death of Arthur C. Clarke, Le Guin was "arguably the most acclaimed science fiction writer on the planet", and went on to describe her as a "pioneer" of literature for young people. [6][7] Author Margaret Atwood hailed Le Guin's "sane, smart, crafty and lyrical voice", and wrote that social injustice was a powerful motivation through Le Guin's life. [170], Always Coming Home, set in California in the distant future, examines a warlike society, resembling contemporary American society, from the perspective of the Kesh, its pacifist neighbors. [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. [40] Even the critically well-received The Left Hand of Darkness, in addition to critique from feminists,[185] was described by Alexei Panshin as a "flat failure". In this interview, former Oregon University System Vice-Chancellor and Portland State University administrator Bill Lemman discusses his career in higher education in Oregon with Clarence Hein. [53], Her writing was recognized by the popular media and by commentators. [90], Other works from this period included Lavinia (2008), based on a character from Virgil's Aeneid,[91] and the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, consisting of Gifts (2004), Voices (2006), and Powers (2007). University Archivist Cris Paschild conducted the interview, which was held at the Portland State University Library on February 12, 2014. Accessibility Statement It cannot be reproduced, distributed, or screened for commercial purposes. [228] Created in 2005,[230] the opera premiered in April 2012. Article. The heterogeneous structure of The Left Hand of Darkness, described as "distinctly post-modern", was unusual for the time of its publication. [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. | [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. 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. 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 . [176] Set in the Hainish universe, the five stories together examine revolution and reconstruction in a slave-owning society. 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. 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. [47] The books contained many themes and ideas also present in Le Guin's better known later works, including the "archetypal journey" of a protagonist who undertakes both a physical journey and one of self-discovery, cultural contact and communication, the search for identity, and the reconciliation of opposing forces. . 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. [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. 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. These stories are ageless because they deal with problems that confront us at any age."[120]. [21][23] In May 1983, she delivered a commencement speech entitled "A Left-handed Commencement Address" at Mills College in Oakland, California. She met the historian Charles Le Guin while enroute to France on a Fulbright scholarship, and they married shortly afterward. Past the barriers at the entranceCharles's menacingly thorny roses, the lion . Portland State University, Privacy The abridged transcript of this interview is available for download. [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. [147] This volume was described as a rewriting or reimagining of The Tombs of Atuan, because the power and status of the female protagonist Tenar are the inverse of what they were in the earlier book, which was also focused on her and Ged. Curry launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to finish the documentary in early 2016 after winning a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 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. Photo by Moira McAuliffe / GobQ LLC. 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. 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. [193] Other awards won by Le Guin include three James Tiptree Jr. Le Guin Charles Alfred Le Guin edit Statements instance of human 0 references sex or gender male 0 references country of citizenship United States of America 0 references given name Charles series ordinal 1 0 references Alfred series ordinal 2 0 references family name Le Guin The award is managed by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust and a panel of jurors. 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. Home Alice Lehman describes the program's move downtown from cramped quarters in the former Lincoln High School into the new Health and Physical Education building (Peter Stott Center) in 1966, and the development of women's collegiate athletics programs at PSU and in the state. [85][199], Later in her career Le Guin also received accolades recognizing her contributions to literature more generally. He joined the faculty of Portland State College in 1959, when most of the campus classrooms, offices, and facilities were still located in the former Lincoln High School Building in downtown Portland, and the college's first new building, Cramer Hall, was still only partially built.In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. 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. [57][101][102][103][104] She described living with her father's friends and acquaintances as giving her the experience of the other. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Variables are the spice of life. Two more Hainish novels, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions were published in 1966 and 1967, respectively, and the three books together would come to be known as the Hainish trilogy. However, as Le Guin rose to popularity in science fiction, she gradually abandoned this job. 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. They were married a few months later in Paris. Acknowledgements and thanks to RAPS, Retirement Association of Portland State University, for biographical information on Mr. Lemman. She began writing full-time in the late 1950s and achieved major critical and commercial success with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), which have been described by Harold Bloom as her masterpieces. 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. A son, Theodore, was born in 1964. 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. 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. 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. This interview was held on February 21, 2019, at the Portland State University Library. [206], Le Guin had a considerable influence on the field of speculative fiction; Jo Walton argued that Le Guin played a large role in both broadening the genre and helping genre writers achieve mainstream recognition. [140] Although The Left Hand of Darkness was seen as a landmark exploration of gender, it also received criticism for not going far enough. In a 2008 interview, she said she considered the 1979 version as "the only good adaptation to film" of her work to date. [12] The Kroeber family had a number of visitors, including well-known academics such as Robert Oppenheimer; Le Guin would later use Oppenheimer as the model for Shevek, the physicist protagonist of The Dispossessed. At this point in her life, Le Guin was working as a history teacher at Portland State University (White, 2016). Home Home [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. [If] you like you can read [a lot of] science fiction, as a thought-experiment. [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. [42], Ace Books released Rocannon's World, Le Guin's first published novel, in 1966. 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. He and Thomas E. Mullen (Ph.D. 1959) have remained good friends. [136] The story is set on the fictional planet of Gethen, whose inhabitants are ambisexual humans with no fixed gender identity, who adopt female or male sexual characteristics for brief periods of their sexual cycle. She was 88. [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. Scholar Charlotte Spivack described it as representing a shift in Le Guin's science fiction towards discussing political ideas. He joined the faculty of Portland State College in 1959, when most of the campus classrooms, offices, and facilities were still located in the former Lincoln High School Building in downtown Portland, and the college's first new building, Cramer Hall, was still only partially built. She argued that the term "soft science fiction" was divisive, and implied a narrow view of what constitutes valid science fiction. Le Guin died suddenly and peacefully . A public reception and awards celebration honoring the prize recipients will also be held at the museum on Thursday, March 2, 2023, from 5:00 - 7:00 pm. Other authors she enjoyed were Lord Dunsany and Lewis Padgett. Le Guin, in Paris in 1953; they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in 1958, and . [115] In the Earthsea universe, it is not the dark powers, but the characters' misunderstanding of the balance of life, that is depicted as evil,[116] in contrast to conventional Western stories in which good and evil are in constant conflict. LeGuin's novels and stories explore sexism, racism, nationalism, and the ambiguities of technological progress. 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 . She was voted a Gandalf Grand Master Award by the World Science Fiction Society in 1979. Portland State University Oral History: Interview with Charles Le Guin Portland State University 16.4K subscribers Subscribe 1.2K views 3 years ago Dr. Charles A. [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. [124][125] A number of science fiction authors have objected to the term "soft science fiction", describing it as a potentially pejorative term used to dismiss stories not based on problems in physics, astronomy, or engineering, and also to target the writing of women or other groups under-represented in the genre. [14][100], The discipline of cultural anthropology had a powerful influence on Le Guin's writing. Several of her protagonists are anthropologists or ethnologists exploring a world alien to them. [9][205] Her writing encompassed speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. [150] This is particularly the case in those works written for a younger audience, such as Earthsea and Annals of the Western Shore. Le Guin was positive about the aesthetic of the film, writing that "much of it was beautiful", but was critical of the film's moral sense and its use of physical violence, and particularly the use of a villain whose death provided the film's resolution. [10], Le Guin's writing career began in the late 1950s, but the time she spent caring for her children constrained her writing schedule. . Show & Tell is PSU Graphic Design's lunchtime lecture series where working design professionals stop by to blow our minds with their wisdom. 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". Dr. Born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, Ursula Le Guin is the daughter of the writer Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her . [85], Other awards and accolades have recognized Le Guin's contributions to speculative fiction. Awards, and three Jupiter Awards. He explains, It was a happy place for me to be, being a part of the development of a fledgling college of2500 students which has grown into a university with 30,000 students in a remarkably short time: PSU has just had the good sense to hire a new College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean who was an Emory undergraduate (Susan Beatty, a geographer). Accompanying them were two former School of Education faculty, Maxine Thomas and Steve Brannan. Le Guin's writing was enormously influential in the field of speculative fiction, and has been the subject of intense critical attention. [228][229] The opera was composed by Stephen A. Taylor;[228] the libretto has been attributed both to Kate Gale[230] and to Marcia Johnson. [17] Le Guin undertook graduate studies at Columbia University, and earned a Master of Arts degree in French in 1952. When she veered explicitly into the critically unrespected genres of science fiction and fantasy, she found willing publishers. Dr. Early attempts to publish her fiction met with little success, and Le Guin's first published writings were poems. Ursula Le Guin American author of novels, children's books, is seen in a Sept. 9, 2001 photo at home in Portland, Ore. [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. It is a sort of grand two person Emory History reunion way out here on the Upper Left Edge.. [149], Le Guin explores coming of age, and moral development more broadly, in many of her writings. Together, their oral histories recall the development, growth, and achievements of Portland State's School of Health and Human Performance, which evolved from the university's Department of Physical Education. In 2004, Lemman was granted an honorary doctorate from Portland State University. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing. [217] Le Guin is also credited with inspiring several female science fiction authors in the 1970s, including Vonda McIntyre. [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. [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. A number of Hainish novels, The Dispossessed prominent among them, explored such a process of reconciliation. 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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"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," one of Le Guin's best known and frequently anthologized stories, is a Jamesian fable that takes its name from the road sign for Salem, Oregon, read backwards. [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". 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". 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. Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. The house where Le Guin has lived for more than fifty years has, in certain respects, come to resemble its owner. Oral History Commons, Her novel Laviniais a ground-breaking exploration of the boundaries between history and mythology, creator and created. Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. [74], Between 1979, when she published Malafrena, and 1994, when the collection A Fisherman of the Inland Sea was released, Le Guin wrote primarily for a younger audience. Le Guin herself took exception to this treatment of children's literature, describing it as "adult chauvinist piggery". [24] It is listed as No. In addition to myths and legends, she read such volumes as The Leaves of the Golden Bough by Lady Frazer, a children's book adapted from The Golden Bough, a study of myth and religion by her husband James George Frazer. 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