Ursula K. Le Guin - Happy 80 Birthday


	Ursula K. Le Guin - Happy 80 Birthday

Fast T friend

10-21-2009 3:57 AM

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"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." - Ursula K. Le Guin

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	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Born:</B> 21 October 1929 </LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Birthplace:</B> Berkeley, California </LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Best Known As:</B> Top science fiction author</LI>
</UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/ursula-k-le-guin"><I>Science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) created fantastic worlds in which the author's strong-willed, feminist protagonists have increasingly taken center stage.</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/ursula-k-le-guin"><DIV><SPAN class="shw">Le Guin, Ursula</SPAN> (1929– ), American author. She is probably most famous for her brilliant fantasy novels for children: <I>A Wizard of Earthsea</I> (1968), <I>The Tombs of Atuan</I> (1971), and <I>The Farthest Shore</I> (1972). In 1990, 18 years later, a fourth and final volume of the story, <I>Tehanu</I>, appeared.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/ursula-k-le-guin"><DIV>The Earthsea books draw on many of the conventions of the fairy story and the quest tale. They take place in an imaginary island archipelago where magic exists and is practised by both official wizards and village witches. In the first three volumes, the boy Ged, who travels to distant lands and overcomes both internal and external obstacles to become a famous wizard, is a central character.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7C335CE0-8914-4AF2-8CAC-36C5676B42DD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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