Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA's Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
Always Coming Home is an act of discovery. . . . Everything Le Guin does is interesting, believable, and exquisitely detailed.--Los Angeles Herald Examiner A gift to the reader, a gentle and wise book that is her most personal, her most daring, probably her best yet.--St. Louis Post Dispatch An appealing book as well as a masterly one. . . . The future world she has created here is awesomely complex.--Newsweek May be Le Guin's finest achievement. --Newsday One of Le Guin's most fascinating and underrated works: a sprawling exploration of a fictional people known as the Kesh, who lived in northern California hundreds of years in the future. . . . A novel, a scrapbook and an imaginary anthropological study in one . . . crammed with maps, stories, songs, recipes, poetry, charts and language guides.--The Guardian Some stories are timeless, and can be located anywhere on earth, without the content being altered. Ursula Le Guin's enthralling new book is one of those.--Minneapolis Star and Tribune The effect it has on the reader is hypnotic. . . . Le Guin has chosen a most original way to reveal this imagined land.--People This may be her masterpiece, a collage of documents and artifacts tracing the history of a future agrarian society that has grown out of the ruins of the industrialized past. --Alta: Journal of Alta California