Ursula Le Guin (1929 – 2018)

Ursula Le Guin was an American writer best known for her science fiction, but over the course of her life she published more than sixty books of fiction and non-fiction, including children's books, poetry, short stories, essays, and young-adult fiction.

Born October 21st, 1929 in Berkley California, her father, Alfred Louis Kroeber was an anthropologist and her mother, Theodora Kracaw was a writer. Le Guin grew up around books, and received her B.A. in Renaissance French and Italian literature from Radcliffe College in 1951, and her M.A. In French and Italian literature from Columbia University in 1952. She received a Fulbright grant to continue her students in France in 1953 and 1954. In 1953 she met and married her husband, Charles Le Guin; the couple had three children: Elizabeth, Caroline, and Theodore.
At age 11 Le Guin began submitting stories for publication, but received rejections for a number of years. In the early 1960s Le Guin began to find success in the science-fiction and fantasy genre with deeply literary texts that incorporated feminist ideals. She began published her Earthsea fantasy series in 1968 with _A Wizard of Earthsea_. Her novels _The Left Hand of Darkness_ (1969) and _The Dispossessed_ (1974) won both the Hugo and Nebula Award, and along with _The Lathe of Heaven_ (1971) are considered her seminal works. In 2016 she published _Word are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books 2000-2016_ . She received the Library of Congree Living Legends aware in 2000.

Books by Ursula Le Guin