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NORA GALLAGHERwrites memoir and fiction. She’s the author recently of the memoir Moonlight Sonata at Mayo Clinic and the novel Changing Light .

DOROTHY GILBERTwas a programmer and interviewer at radio station KPFA in Berkeley for ten years in the 1970s and 1980s. She was for many years on the staff of PEN America and has taught English at UC Berkeley. She has published two award-winning translations from Old French, poems in numerous journals, and science fiction.

NICK GEVERSis a critic and editor specializing in science fiction and fantasy. He has published hundreds of book reviews and scores of author interviews, and edited many anthologies, including the Shirley Jackson Award–winning Ghosts by Gaslight (with Jack Dann). He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

BRIDGET HUBERis a journalist and researcher based in France. Her work has been published or broadcast by Public Radio International, The Lancet, The New York Times, Mother Jones, California Sunday Magazine, and National Public Radio, among others.

DAVID STREITFELDis the editor of The Last Interview books on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J. D. Salinger, Philip K. Dick, Hunter Thompson, and, in its expanded form, David Foster Wallace. All were published by Melville House. He is a reporter for The New York Times , where in 2013 he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family and too many books.

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URSULA K. LE GUIN: THE LAST INTERVIEW AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS

Copyright © 2019 by Melville House Publishing

First Melville House printing: February 2019

Introduction copyright © 2018 by David Streitfeld

“The Gift of Place” © 1977 by Oz Publications, Inc. First published in 10 Point 5 Magazine, Spring 1977. Reprinted by permission of interviewers Alison Halderman, David Zeltzer and Karen McPherson.

“Naming Magic” © 1978 by Dorothy Gilbert. First published in California Quarterly, No. 13/14, Spring/Summer 1978.

“There is more than one way to see” © 1982 by George Wickes and Louise Westling. First published in Northwest Review, Vol. 20, Nos. 2 and 3.