Ursula K. Le Guin, the acclaimed writer best known for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, died on Monday at the age of 88, her son confirmed to the New York Times. Her body of work, which includes the Earthsea series and the Hugo and Nebula award winners The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, used speculative fiction to touch on issues surrounding gender and race.
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