she was better pleased with stage versions, including Paradises Lost, than screen adaptations of her work to that date. In 2013, the Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth Theatre produced a play based on The Left Hand of Darkness, directed and adapted by Jonathan Walters, with text written by John Schmor. The play opened May 2, 2013, and ran until June 16, 2013, in Portland, Oregon. Bibliography Le Guin's career as a professional writer spanned nearly sixty years, from 1959 to 2018. During this period, she wrote more than twenty novels, more than a hundred short stories, more than a dozen volumes of poetry, five translations, and thirteen children's books. Her writing encompassed speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. Le Guin's first published work was the poem "Folksong from the Montayna Province" in 1959, while her first published short story was "An die Musik", in 1961. Her first professional publication was the short story "April in Paris" in 1962, while her first published novel was Rocannon's World, released by Ace Books in 1966. Her final publications included the non-fiction collections Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, both released after her death. Her best-known works include the six volumes of the Earthsea series, and the many novels of the Hainish Cycle. See also List of American novelists List of fantasy authors List of science fiction authors Citations Sources Further reading External links Ursula K. Le Guin papers, circa 1930s–2018 at the University of Oregon Libraries Interviews Ursula Le Guin Bookworm Interviews (Audio) with Michael Silverblatt: January 1992, March 2001 Speeches 1929 births 2018 deaths 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers American fantasy writers American feminist writers American literary critics American women critics Women literary critics American people of German descent American science fiction writers American short story writers American speculative fiction critics American speculative fiction translators American Taoists American women children's writers American children's writers American women essayists American women poets American women short story writers American women novelists Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Constructed language creators Endeavour Award winners Environmental fiction writers Hugo Award-winning writers Kroeber family Margaret A. Edwards Award winners National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners