Article 3E5AN Fantasy Novelist Ursula Le Guin, Who Explored Resistance & Change, Dies at Age 88

Fantasy Novelist Ursula Le Guin, Who Explored Resistance & Change, Dies at Age 88

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Celebrated fantasy novelist Ursula Le Guin has died at the age of 88. The feminist writer was the author of more than 20 novels, more than a dozen collections of poetry and another dozen children's books. Among her most famous works was her 1969 novel "The Left Hand of Darkness," which is set on a planet where people are "ambisexual"-neither male nor female-and contains one of the most famous sentences ever written in a fantasy novel: "The King was pregnant." Ursula Le Guin's 1974 novel "The Dispossessed" is also one of the most celebrated explorations of utopia, dystopia, capitalism, anarchism and oppression. We play an excerpt of Le Guin accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014.

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