In 1985 in Ursula’s home in the Napa Valley, Elinor Armer and Ursula K. Le Guin dreamt up an archipelago of islands – the Islands of the Uttermost Parts – where music was used for purposes beyond listening and was even more essential than it is in our world. Ursula K. Le Guin. A UC Santa Cruz alumna’s acclaimed documentary about the legendary genre-bending sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin is debuting tonight on PBS. Quotations by Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer, Born October 21, 1929. Ursula K. Le Guin was author of 21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, 4 collections of essays, 12 children’s books, six volumes of poetry and 4 of translation. The author has also produced poems and essays. People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN. From within. Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). Ursula K. Le Guin’s original site is archived here as a resource for fans and scholars. Ursula K. Le Guin is an American author that is best known for her fantasy and science fiction novels for children. This is a landmark moment for filmmaker Arwen Curry (Kresge ’96, language studies) whose movie, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, includes revelatory interviews with the author, who died last year at age 88. She started writing in her sixties and became a successful author. Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929.Her father, Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876–1960), was an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed. Ursula K. Le Guin is still battling the status quo. “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press 85 Copy quote. Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of several poetry collections, including Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), and over twenty novels, including The Left Hand of Darkness (Walker, 1969). Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a feature documentary exploring the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin.