By the time she died, Le Guin had penned 12 books of poetry, 7 books of essays, 5 volumes of translation, and 13 children’s books, in addition to her 20 novels. Though Le Guin came to be known for her science fiction and fantasy, particularly her Earthsea series, she wrote prolifically in a number of genres. That year, she won the Hugo and Nebula awards for her novel, a feat she would repeat a year later with her anarcho-feminist book, The Dispossessed. Le Guin found national acclaim with her 1970 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, set on a genderless planet called Gethen. Le Guin abandoned her literature studies to marry Charles and move to Portland, Oregon, where she would find time to write while raising three children. She won a Fulbright to continue studying Renaissance literature in Paris, but on the voyage across the Atlantic, she met historian Charles Le Guin and fell in love. She channeled her literary interests into her studies, graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe in 1951 and then earning a master’s degree from Columbia in 1952 (she studied French and Italian literature). With three older brothers and access to her father’s extensive library, Le Guin developed an early interest in speculative fiction, writing her first science fiction story at age nine. Ursula Kroeber was born on October 21, 1929, the daughter of writer Theodora Kracaw and anthropologist Alfred Kroeber.
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