Ursula Le Guin

Overview

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin born Berkeley, CA October 21, 1929. Novelist; organized protests against nuclear bomb and Vietnam War.

Quotations

"[Armies are] a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency. . . the purpose was to enable men with machine-guns to kill unarmed men and women. . . he could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in." (Dispossessed, p. 253, 1974; photo 3 River Tech Review)