{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Ursula K. Le Guin","url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/ursula-k-le-guin","author_name":"Ursula K. Le Guin","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/ursula-k-le-guin","description":"Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author who wrote more than 20 novels and 100 short stories. She\u0026#39;s best known for her genre-bending speculative fiction, including the Earthsea fantasy series and the Hainish universe novels. Her early works, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and The Dispossessed (1974), established her as a major figure in science fiction. ","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/authors/213830/6294300-L.jpg","thumbnail_width":280,"thumbnail_height":340}