Ursula K. Le Guin Biography, Early Life, Career, Personal Life, Books, Interview

Ursula K. Le Guin Biography

Ursula K. Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, yielding more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories,

Ursula K. Le Guin Early Life

Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber on October 21, 1929, in Berkeley, California, the youngest child and only girl among four siblings.

Le Guin was raised in a household in which the exploration of art, ideas and cultures was encouraged, with members of the Native-American community becoming well known to the family.

A lover of mythology, Le Guin went on to attend Radcliffe College, and later graduated with an MA from Columbia University. Ursula K. Le Guin wed historian and fellow Fulbright scholar Charles Le Guin in December 1953 some months after the two met on a maritime voyage to France.

 

Ursula K. Le Guin Education

Le Guin attended Berkeley High School. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Renaissance French and Italian literature from Radcliffe College in 1951, and graduated as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. As a child she had been interested in biology and poetry, but had been limited in her choice of career by her difficulties with mathematics.

Le Guin undertook graduate studies at Columbia University, and earned a Master of Arts degree in French in 1952. Soon after, she began working towards a PhD, and won a Fulbright grant to continue her studies in France from 1953 to 1954.

Ursula K. Le Guin Career

Literary Career

In the early 1960s, Le Guin had published a few things, but had written much more that was not yet published Ursula K. Le Guin would later recount that she faced years of rejection from mainstream publishers while plying her trade as a writer.

She eventually turned to the genres of science fiction and fantasy, and found acceptance. In doing so, she became one of the most critically acclaimed science fiction writers. Le Guin’s work has been collected more frequently in literary anthologies than that of any other science-fiction author.

Ursula K. Le Guin went on to become known as one of the early feminist voices in fantasy and science fiction. She was one of the very few writers that has been able to break through the academic disdain for “low art”.

Le Guin believed that imagination, not profit, should drive artistic creation and expression. She was a vocal advocate for genre work, finding the distinction between high and low art to be incredibly problematic.

Works

Her work is often concerned with individual freedom. In her fictitious worlds, there is a limitless range of choices, but none are without results. To ignore this fact is to be not human. Therefore, in Le Guin’s story, any self-aware being is a human, regardless of its species.

One of Ursula Le Guin’s most well-known series, the Hainish series, was the setting for two of her earliest novels. Among the later titles in the series are The Word for World Is Forest (1972), The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974), and The Telling (2000).

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), the fourth book of the Hainish Series, became one of Le Guin’s most acclaimed and trailblazing works.

A ponderous narrative, Darkness profiles the Gethenians, an alien race who have no fixed gender characteristics until the time of monthly mating, with the novel also contrasting the social mores of two nations in conflict. The book was eventually lauded as a visionary classic and won both Nebula and Hugo awards, an unprecedented double honor.

After a request from a publisher, Le Guin turned to the world of young adult audiences and released A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968, following the travails of student wizard Sparrowhawk in a tempestuous archipelago locale.

With visceral descriptions of magic and physical terrain, Earthsea became a renowned series as seen with the follow-up works The Tombs of Atuan (1970), The Farthest Shore (1972), and Tehanu (1990), as well as Tales From Earthsea (2001) and The Other Wind (2001), the final novel in the series.

The Earthsea books have reportedly sold millions of copies worldwide. Though the series is geared towards teen audiences, adult readers have taken to them as well, as the works are noted for their emotional maturity and depth.

Ursula K. Le Guin Age

Ursula  Le Guin was born in October 21, 1929 and died on January 22, 2018 was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, died at the age of 88 years

Ursula K. Le Guin Family

Her mother, Theodora, was a writer who chronicled the life of the last Yahi tribe member, Ishi, while her father, Alfred, was a celebrated anthropologist.Ursula had three older brothers: Karl, who became a literary scholar, Theodore, and Clifton.

Ursula K. Le Guin Marriage

Le Guins is married to her lovely husband Charles Le Guin . The couple married in Paris in December 1953.  and together they are blessed with three children namely, Elisabeth,Caroline and their son Theodore ,and live in in Portland .

Ursula K. Le Guin Body Measurements

• Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
• Weight: not available
• Shoe Size: not available
• Body Shape: not available
• Hair Colour:White
• Eye Colour: blue

Ursula K. Le Guin Net Worth

Ursula K. Le Guin’s net worth is $1 Million – $5 Million at the age of 90 years old. Ursula K. Le Guin earned the money being a professional Writer.

Ursula K. Le Guin Death

Le Guin died at her Portland home on January 22, 2018, at age 88. No cause was immediately named, though one of her sons said she had been in poor health for months.

Ursula K. Le Guin Books

• The Left Hand of Darkness
• A Wizard of Earthsea
• The Dispossessed
• The Tombs of Atuan
• Orsinian Tales
• The Lathe of Heaven
• Dancing at the Edge of the World
• The Telling

Ursula K. Le Guin Movies

• Tales from Earthsea
  2006
• Lathe of Heaven
  2002

Frequently Asked Questions About Ursula  Le Guin

 

Who is Ursula  Le Guin ?

Ursula K. Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.

How old is Ursula  Le Guin?

Ursula  Le Guin was (88) as of (January 22, 2018). She was born in 1929

How tall is Ursula  Le Guin?

Ursula  Le Guin stands at a height of 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)

Is Ursula  Le Guin married?

Le Guins is married to her lovely husband Charles Le Guin . The couple married in Paris in December 1953.  and together they are blessed with three children namely, Elisabeth,Caroline and their son Theodore

How much is Ursula  Le Guin worth?

She is  an accomplished professional Writer with an estimated net worth of $1 Million – $5 Million .

 

Where does  Ursula  Le Guin live?

She lived at her home in Portland, before death

Is Ursula  Le Guin dead or alive?

Le Guin died at her Portland home on January 22, 2018, at age 88. No cause was immediately named, though one of her sons said she had been in poor health for months
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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

• It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
• When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
• Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
• To oppose something is to maintain it.
• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
• I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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