Le Guin died peacefully in her home in January, 2018.įew American writers have done work of such high quality in so many forms. Le Guin, in Paris in 1953 they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in 1958, and had three children and four grandchildren. She attended Radcliffe College and did graduate work at Columbia University. Her parents were anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi. Ursula Kroeber was born in 1929 and grew up in Berkeley, California. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards.

We shall see if I don’t get hit with the need to mainline another author.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. I’ll probably go back to working on the magazines and anthologies for the time being. I thought about hunting the art for the other books but I feel like I did enough.

I added the soundtrack that was originally sold with Always Coming Home and even tracked down artwork for the book since it seemed important. There were a few books that I couldn’t get because if region locks but it’s not so big of a deal since I have at least one other narration in those cases. While trying to find better rips of certain books I stumbled upon someone who had a ton of RNIB rips, and not just of Le Guin. Luckily there was only one anthology and one collection I had to purchase myself. I had a bunch already and then I searched for the ones I didn’t have. Then I mined for the various anthologies that featured her work. While that was going on in the background I downloaded all I could find and sorted through the various rips other people put out on the internet from Audible, RNIB, CDs, tape and even an LP. All told, it took about a month and a half to record all NLS books available. Every now and again I go through an obsessive streak and one day I switched focus to Le Guin. The collection was on the horizon, but when I was going to do it was nebulous. 22 books & 420+ short stories, essays, poems and reviews.Ī few months ago I regulated myself to focusing on various anthologies and Analog/Asimov’s magazines.

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