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The author’s success was
immediate. Science fiction
opened Le Guin up to writing
not only about aliens but from
“alien” points of view, The New
Yorker wrote in a 2017 profile.
From ‘Searoad’ to
Cannon Beach
Le Guin’s literary output —
poems, short stories, children’s
books, novels — often depicts
futuristic worlds, using fantasy
settings and tropes to confront
serious human issues: politics,
spirituality, environmentalism,
then-Cannon Beach Gazette
reporter Erick Bengel wrote in
a 2014 profile.
She often incorporated
Cannon Beach into her poems,
sometimes by name and other
times through coastal imagery.
“I loved it from the start,”
Le Guin said in a 2017 inter-
view. “Way, way back, in the
’60s. It was a little artists’ hide-
away town. The sculptor Joe
Police was mayor. There were
no mega-mansions owned by
out-of-state millionaires, no
big ugly cement walls on North
Beach, it had its own hardware
stores and indie drugstore and
Osborne’s excellent grocery. It
was more self-contained and a
good deal, well, gnarlier. But
it’s still pretty gnarly, thank
goodness.”
Jack Liu
Ursula K. Le Guin speaking at the University of Oregon in Eugene in 2013.
Her 1991 novel, “Searoad:
Chronicles of Klatsand,” por-
trayed a community that
resembled Cannon Beach.
The novel is chock-a-block
with familiar imagery: the kite
shop, the year-round Christ-
mas store, Tom’s Grill and the
volunteer library.
“I mentioned Cannon
Beach in one of the stories
so that people would know
that Klatsand is NOT (quite)
CB,” Le Guin wrote in a 2017
email. “Klatsand has a lot of
elements of CB, but it also has
bits of Seaside and Manzanita
and Nehalem.”
Rex and Diane Amos of
Cannon Beach met the Le
Guins when they visited their
house in Northwest Portland to
share a mutual love of music.
“Diane brought her upstairs
to meet me and to give her
a tour of the house,” Amos
recalled. “When we met,
Ursula asked me about my art.
I told her that many people
found my stuff radical and pro-
voking. She laughed and said,
‘Good, we need more of that.
Keep it up.’ Of course, for that
bit of encouragement I liked
her immediately.”
‘Strong values’
Le Guin became a part
of Ayres’ life after Le Guin
moved into the same neigh-
borhood as her grandparents
decades ago.
For Ayres, Le Guin’s poi-
gnant sense of humor paired
with a “clear, uncompromising
voice,” impacted the literary
community and community at
large in “a giant way.”
“She spoke her truth,”
Ayres said. “I would say it was
her and Terry Brooks: Those
were our two literary luminar-
ies from Cannon Beach.”
Ayres said Le Guin’s voice
when it came to writing about
women offered clarity in her
own life.
Cannon Beach resident
Rainmar Bartl remembers Le
Guin and her husband stopping
by a weekly community coffee
that happens at Cheri’s Cafe
whenever she was in town.
Bartl remembers her as a
“very unpresuming person”
with “very strong values.”
Though she didn’t live on
the coast, she cared about Can-
non Beach and took an interest
in city affairs, Bartl said. “She
was very generous with her
time, especially as someone
at this level of world renown.
I remember she would come
and give talks, read from her
books. She would make herself
available for these community
events when she could.”
Le Guin publicly supported
an immigrant inclusivity reso-
lution that ultimately was pre-
sented and passed by the city
in 2017.
“It is unfortunate that our
current federal government, by
attempting to enforce policies
that deny the very principles
our republic is founded on,
makes such a resolution neces-
sary,” Le Guin said in an inter-
view with the Cannon Beach
Gazette.
‘Freedom’
In later years, Le Guin’s
work became increasingly
political.
At 85, she was the sur-
prise star of the National Book
Awards in 2014 with a speech
that encouraged people to
be masters of their own des-
tiny, like a Le Guin character
whose dreams can alter reality.
Le Guin was given the
Medal for Distinguished Con-
tribution to American Let-
ters. She accepted the medal
on behalf of her fellow writ-
ers of fantasy and science fic-
tion, who, she said, had been
“excluded from literature for
so long” while literary hon-
ors went to the “so-called
realists.”
Her most recent book,
“No Time to Spare: Think-
ing About What Matters,” was
released to widespread acclaim
in December.
It is Le Guin’s message
to future generations of writ-
ers and readers that will be
remembered by her many
fans.
In the National Book
Awards speech, she called
upon her fellow artists to resist
the temptation to kowtow to
corporate pressures.
Freedom, she said, will be
their reward.
The author received a
standing ovation.
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