Ursula K. Le Guin didn’t want to be called a ‘genius’

Last year I wrote an introduction to Ursula K. Le Guin's collection of blog posts, "No Time to Spare." Before submitting it to her editor, I ran it by her. In it, I called her a genius. She objected to the word. Her father had told her, she said, that the word "genius" should be "saved for people who were really different in kind from other people — sui generis."