Who is the author of the 'Earthsea' series?

Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of the Earthsea series. Her fantasy cycle follows characters including the wizard Ged and explores balance, identity, power, mortality, and the responsibilities that come with knowledge.

The series began with A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968, followed by The Tombs of Atuan in 1971 and The Farthest Shore in 1972. Le Guin later returned to the archipelago with Tehanu in 1990, then published Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind in 2001. Although the first three books are often called the original Earthsea trilogy, the complete cycle includes six books and related short fiction.

A common mix-up is to treat Earthsea as the title of one novel. It is both the name of Le Guin's fictional world and the collective name for the series set there. The setting is a vast archipelago rather than a continent, and its magic emphasizes the power and danger of true names. Le Guin's work made Earthsea one of modern fantasy's most influential imagined worlds.