This Reader's Guide was written by Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic who writes frequently about fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and is the author of the memoir An Open Book (2003) and of four collections of essays: Readings (2000), Bound to Please (2005), Book by Book (2006), and Classics for Pleasure (2007).
Works Cited
Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea. 1968. New York: Bantam Books, 2004.
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2004.
Works Consulted
Bucknall, Barbara J. Ursula K. Le Guin. New York: Ungar, 1981.
Cummins, Elizabeth. Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.
Oziewicz, Marek "Prolegomena to Mythopoeic Fantasy." The Chesterton Review XXXI, (3 & 4). South Orange: Seton Hall University, 2005.
Spivack, Charlotte. Ursula K. Le Guin. Boston: Twayne, 1984.
Storr, Anthony, ed. The Essential Jung. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Tolkien, J.R.R. "On Fairy–Stories." Tree and Leaf. London: Allen and Unwin, 1964.
Waggoner, Diana. The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy. New York: Atheneum, 1978.
Acknowledgments
David Kipen, NEA Director of Literature, National Reading Initiatives
Writer: Michael Dirda for the National Endowment for the Arts, with a preface by Dana Gioia
Series Editor: Erika Koss for the National Endowment for the Arts
