Awards
- Winner of Hugo Award (Related Book) 2017
Overview
A bright and wide-ranging collection of essays, reviews, talks, and more from one of our best and most thoughtful writers. ""I read her nonstop growing up and read her still. What makes her so extraordinary for me is that her commitment to the consequences of our actions, of our all too human frailties, is unflinching and almost without precedent for a writer of such human optimism.""—Junot Diaz ""A lot of her work is about telling stories, and what it means to tell stories, and what stories look like. She's been extremely influential on me in that area of what I, as a beginning writer, thought a story must look like, and the much more expan-sive view I have now of what a story can be and can do.""—Karen Joy Fowler ""She was and remains a central figure for me.""—Michael Chabon Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. Among her honors are the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a National Book Award, the Hugo, Nebula, and Kafka awards, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Me-morial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Full Product Details
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Imprint: Small Beer Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.596kg
ISBN: 9781618731340
ISBN 10: 1618731343
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 03 November 2016
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Reviews for the new edition of Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story A must-read for intermediate and advanced writers of fiction and memoir. --Library Journal, STARRED A succinct, clear, and encouraging companion for aspiring writers. --Kirkus Reviews It would be churlish to deny the benefits of this thoughtful, concise volume...In essence, Le Guin reveals the art of craft and the craft of art...this book is a star by which to set one's course. --Publishers Weekly, STARRED There is no better spirit in all of American letters than that of Ursula Le Guin. -- Slate Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and force of a Twain. She creates stories for everyone from New Yorker literati to the hardest audience, children. She remakes every genre she uses. -- Boston Globe
Author Information
Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Tiptree, Sturgeon, PEN-Malamud, and National Book Award and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka prizes, among others. In recent years she has received lifetime achievement awards from World Fantasy Awards, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legends award. Le Guin was the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children's May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret Edwards Award. Her recent publications include three survey collections: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas; The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories; and The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena, Stories and Songs (Library of America) as well as a new collection of poetry, Late in the Day. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and her website is ursulakleguin.com.
