Ursula K. Le Guin

portion of proceeds donated to Malheur Field Station Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American novelist. She worked mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She also authored children's books, short stories, poetry, and essays. Her writing was first published in the 1960s and often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality, and ethnography. In 2016, The New York Times described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although she said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". She won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once. In 2003, she was made a Grandmaster of Science Fiction, one of a few women writers to take the top honor in the genre. Le Guin exploited the creative flexibility of the science fiction and fantasy genres to undertake thorough explorations of dimensions of both social and psychological identity a