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The education of Ursula Le Guin

  • Written by Philip W. Scher, Professor of Anthropology and Folkore, University of Oregon
A connection can be made in between Ursula Le Guin's fiction and her father's groundbreaking work in anthropology.Oregon State University, CC BY-SA

On Jan. 22, Ursula K. Le Guin died in Portland, Oregon. Since then, much has been written memorializing her genre-defying body of work, her contributions to feminism and science fiction, and her broad...

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