Ursula K. Le Guin

Biography

American writer born in Berkeley, California in 1929, daughter of the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 and took an MA at Columbia in 1952. She entered science fiction with Rocannon's World (1966) and established herself through the Hainish cycle and the Earthsea series. She won eight Hugo Awards, six Nebulas and twenty-five Locus Awards; the Library of Congress named her a Living Legend in 2000, SFWA made her a Grand Master in 2003, and she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She died in Portland, Oregon in 2018.