Calif. Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin will visit San Jos State University this spring as part of the Major Author Series sponsored by the Center for Literary Arts in the College of Humanities and the Arts.
Admission is free to all events.
Le Guin, born in Berkeley in 1929, has written poetry and fiction all her life. Several of her major titles have remained continuously in print for more than 30 years. Her best-known fantasy works, the four Books of Earthsea , have sold six million copies in America and England, and have been translated into 16 languages. Her first major work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness , is considered epoch-making in the field for its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity. Among her books for children, the Catwings series has become a particular favorite.