Ursula Le Guin

Dimitra Fimi (University of Glasgow)

Ed. by Christopher Hugh Gair, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 21 Oct 1929
Died 22 Jan 2018
Activity c. 1959-2018

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in 1929 in Berkeley, California. Her father was the eminent anthropologist Alfred Kroeber (1897–1960), whose extensive and pioneering work on Native American tribes helped establish one of the leading US anthropology departments at the University of California at Berkley. Her mother, Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (1897–1979), was a writer and scholar in her own right, known for the best selling

Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

(1961). As a child, Le Guin read avidly, especially in myth and science-fiction, the latter possibly an influence of her older brothers’ interests. She started writing very young, submitting her first story for publication (albeit unsuccessfully) to the science fiction magazine

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Citation: Fimi, Dimitra. "Ursula Le Guin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 November 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5219, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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