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  • About Ursula K. Le Guin

    Ursula Kroeber Le Guin () was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation.

    The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

    Ursula Kroeber was born in and grew up in Berkeley, California.

    Her parents were anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi. She attended Radcliffe College and did graduate work at Columbia University. She married historian Charles A. Le Guin, in Paris in ; they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in , and had three children and