Biography of ursula le guin

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() US author, based in Portland, Oregon, whose first novel was published in ; by she was already recognized as one of the most important writers within the field. Decades before her death, her reputation had extended far beyond the readership of Genre SF, while within the genre she was honoured with five Hugos and six Nebulas; as much attention has been paid to her by the academic community as to Philip K Dick.

Le Guin was the daughter of Dr Alfred Louis Kroeber () and Theodora Kroeber (), the former a noted anthropologist who published much work on Native Americans, the latter a writer and anthropologist best known for Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (). Le Guin was thus brought up in academic surroundings; her own education, including a master's degree from Columbia, was in Romance Literatures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, particularly French. She wrote Poetry – collected in seve

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Ursula K. Le Guin

American fantasy and science fiction author (–)

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (KROH-bər lə GWIN;^[1]néeKroeber; October 21, – January 22, ) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthseafantasy series. Her work was first published in , and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".^[3]

Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Having earned a master's degree in French, Le Guin began doctoral studies but abandoned these after her ma

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin was born on October 21, , in Berkeley, California. Her parents, Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Quinn Kroeber, were both anthropologists. Le Guin was the youngest of four children and the only daughter.

She received a BA from Radcliffe College in and an MA in Romance languages from Columbia University in While in France on a Fulbright fellowship, she met and married Charles Le Guin, another Fulbright scholar. Soon after, the couple moved to Portland, Oregon.

Over the next few years, Le Guin wrote poetry, short stories, and fem novels, but it wasn’t until that she published her first short story. In , she published her first poetry collection, Wild Angels (Capra Press). Le Guin went on to publish several additional books of poetry, including So Far So Good: Poems – (Copper Canyon Press, ); Later in the Day: Poems, – (PM Press, ); Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ); and Hard Word