Biography
Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California, in 1929, the daughter of the anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. She studied at Radcliffe College and at Columbia University, where she earned a master's degree with a thesis on Pierre de Ronsard, married the historian Charles A. Le Guin in 1953 and lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1958. Her first novel appeared in 1966; she became known for “A Wizard of Earthsea” (1968), the first of the Earthsea novels, and for “The Left Hand of Darkness” (1969), which made her the first woman to win both the Hugo and the Nebula Award for best novel. Later works include “The Lathe of Heaven” (1971, German title “Die Geißel des Himmels”) and the anarchist utopia “The Dispossessed” (1974). Shaped by cultural anthropology, Taoism and feminism, her work also includes short stories, poetry, essays, translations and children's books; in 2014 she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Le Guin died in Portland in 2018.
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