Ursula Kroeber Le Guin:
(née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018).
American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children’s books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a “major voice in American Letters”. Le Guin said she would prefer to be known as an “American novelist”.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
