- Born
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- Birth nameUrsula Kroeber
- Height1.63 m
- Ursula K. Le Guin was born on October 21, 1929 in Berkeley, California, USA. She was a writer, known for Les Contes de Terremer (2006), The Lathe of Heaven (1980) and The Telling. She was married to Charles A. Le Guin. She died on January 22, 2018 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
- SpouseCharles A. Le Guin(December 22, 1953 - January 22, 2018) (her death, 3 children)
- Graduated from Berkeley High School, class of 1947, with Philip K. Dick, but they didn't know each other.
- She met her husband in Paris, France, where they were both Fulbright scholars.
- Daughter of Alfred Kroeber (1876-1960), one of the founders of modern anthropology, and Theodora Kroeber Quinn (1897-1979).
- She was the basis for F.M. Busby's character Rissa Kerguelen, appearing in at least three science-fiction novels. Kerguelen's name is anagrammatic to Le Guin's.
- Best known for her stories of science-fiction and fantasy.
- The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
- [on imagination] As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
- I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a new novel, sometimes.
- [on her first, unprinted novel] May a curse fall upon any academic who digs it out and publishes it.
- 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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