Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:07:41 -0400 From: mark <whitroth@5-cent.us> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [WSFA] Ursula K Le Guin, rising above genre and so much else Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@KeithLynch.net> Excerpt: The National Book Foundation in America can lay claim to a staggeringly impressive list of past recipients of its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Ray Bradbury, John Updike. Stephen King, too, to a great deal of grumpiness from Harold Bloom back in 2003. On Wednesday, though, it announced 2014\222s winner \226 and I think she may, possibly, be my favourite yet: the wonderful, the inimitable, Ursula K Le Guin. --- end excerpt --- <http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/sep/11/ursula-k-le-guin-genre-medal-for-distinguished-contribution-to-american-letters> mark