LibGuides: 2025-26 OBOC: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin: About Le Guin and The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin
Best-known for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy works such as A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin defiantly held her ground on the margin of "respectable" literature until the sheer excellence of her work, at long last, forced the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Produced with Le Guin's participation over the course of a decade, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a journey through the writer's career and her worlds, both real and fantastic - an intimate journey of self-discovery as she comes into her own as a major feminist author, opening new doors for the imagination and inspiring generations of women and other marginalized writers along the way.
Out of Bounds: The Unruly Imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin
Biographer Julie Phillips profiles Ursula K. Le Guin offering an overview of her development as a writer and thinker.
Writing Nameless Things: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
"One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise." An interview with SF great Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
Julie Phillips considers a beloved author’s lifetime of helping with the housework of democracy.

The Dispossessed at 50
Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘anarchist utopia’ was an anguished response to war. Its political power endures.
To Touch the Dust of Anarres
Jonathan Bolton thoughtfully reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed” within and against the grain of a half century of criticism.
The (Many) Covers of The Dispossessed
A book designer guides us through the design,history of Le Guin's masterpiece