Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 (Published 2018)Author Ursula Le Guin at home with her cat, Lorenzo, in 1996. The writer’s “pleasant duty,” she said, is to ply the reader’s imagination with “the best and purest nourishment that it can absorb.”Credit...Jill Krementz, All Rights Reserved Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like
