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Le Guin, Ursula(nee Kroeber)

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Born: 1929 AD
Currently alive, at 79 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Authors

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1929 – She was born on the 21st day of October this year in Berkeley, California, United States.

 

1951 - She received her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Radcliffe College this year.

 

1952 - She received her M.A. from Columbia University this year.

 

1953 - She later studied in France, where she met her husband, historian Charles Le Guin. They were married this year.

 

1958 –She has lived in Portland, Oregon since this year. She has three children and four grandchildren.

 

1969 - She became famous after the publication of her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.

 

1979 - She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award this year.

 

1980 - For television, The Lathe of Heaven has been adapted twice, by thirteen/WNET New York, with her own participation. And in 2002 by the A&E Network; while the first two books of the Earth sea trilogy were adapted into the miniseries Legend of Earth sea in 2004 by the Sci-Fi Channel.

 

2000 – She received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the "Writers and Artists" category in April of this year for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage.

 

2003 – She received the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award this year.

 

2006 – She was honored by The Washington Center for the Book for her distinguished body of work with the Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers October of this year.






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