The Found and the Lost

Every iconic novella by the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin collected for the first time, in one volume. For the first time in her career, this collects all of the novellas of this icon of American literature in one volume. In 2014, Le Guin was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation. She has been awarded the National Book Award, the Hugo award, the Nebula award, the World Fantasy Award, the Newbery Honor, the Margaret A Edwards award, the PEN/Malamud award, the Locus award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her stories.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards; a Newbery Honor; and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. 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. Le Guin was also the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. She received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention, 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 Legend Award. Her website is UrsulaKLeGuin.com.