Ursula K. Le Guin
For the next couple of years in the 1970s, Le Guin continued and extended the work she had started. Le Guin continued to develop themes of equilibrium and coming-of-age in the next two installments of the Earthsea series, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, published in 1971 and 1972. Both books were praised for their writing, while the exploration of death as a theme in The Farthest Shore also got praise.