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Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
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Feminist
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Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
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