Ursula Le Guin, author of realistic fiction, historical fiction, children's literature, fantasy, poetry, reviews and critical essays, has for 30 years maintained a dialogue with reviewers and scholars who have provided a critical response to her work. This dialogue has explored her changing views on feminism, environmentalism and utopia. In this book the various strands of Le Guin criticism are brought together with the aim of showing how the author's relationship with her critics has informed and influenced her work and her own critical stance, and how her reputation as a major voice in American letters has developed.