Ursula K. Le Guin
21 October 1929 – 22 January 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin was an American writer known for the Earthsea fantasy series and for science fiction novels set in the Hainish universe, among them The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. The daughter of the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, she studied Romance literature at Radcliffe and Columbia and lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1959. In 2014 she received the National Book Foundation's medal for distinguished contribution to American letters.
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Life events
She was the youngest child of the anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe took a degree in Renaissance French and Italian literature.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThey met aboard a ship to France while she held a Fulbright fellowship.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe family moved there when her husband took a post at Portland State University, and she lived in the city for the rest of her life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel opened the Earthsea series and was written for a young adult readership.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel again won the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer acceptance speech on writing and publishing was widely reported.
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