Molly Gloss
Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland. Her several novels include The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, Wild Life, and The Hearts of Horses. Among her honors and awards are a Whiting Writers Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the PEN Center West Fiction Prize, a James Tiptree Jr. Award, and an Oregon Book Award.
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)
Ursula K. Le Guin, one of Oregon’s preeminent writers, was born Ursula Kroeber in 1929 in Berkeley, California, the youngest and only girl in a family of four children. Her parents were Alfred Kroeber, a prominent and influential American anthropologist, and the writer Theodora Kroeber, widely known for her accounts …
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