LE GUIN, URSULA K.
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed genre literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected herespanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of capitalismhighlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.
