![]() ![]() Three of Le Guin's titles have been finalists for The American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are a National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, and The Margaret A. We'll help you figure out where to start. She is the author of the bestselling and award winning CATWINGS series. If you want to celebrate this legend's birthday, pick up a copy of one of her books at your library. ![]() You don’t have to be a hardcore fantasy fan to appreciate the beauty of Le Guin's writing, her wonderful storytelling, or the vivid fictional worlds she creates. If you've never read Le Guin before, you're missing out on some great literature. Her masterful storytelling, which weaves together anthropology, issues of gender identity and sexuality, high fantasy, and sci-fi, has made her an American legend in literary fiction. Over the course of her 40-year career, she published dozens of novels, collections of short stories, essays, and volumes of poetry to critical acclaim won the Hugo, Nebula, PEN-Malamud, and National Book Award and pushed the boundaries of science fiction. Le Guin (1929-2018), one of the most well-known and popular science fiction and fantasy authors of all time, was born on October 21, 1929, in Berkeley, California. ![]()
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