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  <name><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Le Guin was born and raised in Berkeley, California, the daughter of the anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. Her father was granted the first Ph.D. in Anthropology in the United States in 1901 (Columbia University). She became interested in literature when she was very young. At the age of eleven she submitted her first story to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (it was rejected).

She received her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Radcliffe College in 1951, and M.A. from Columbia University in 1952. She later studied in France, where she met her husband, historian Charles Le Guin. They were married in 1953.

Her earliest writings (little published at the time, but some appeared in adapted form much later in Orsinian Tales and Malafrena), were non-fantastic stories of imaginary countries. Searching for a publishable way to express her interests, she returned to her early interest in science fiction and began to be published regularly in the early 1960s. She became famous after the publication of her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Le Guin has lived in Portland, Oregon since 1958. She has three children and four grandchildren.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Berkeley, California</hometown>  <born_at>10/21/1929</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Left Hand of Darkness]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Tombs of Atuan (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 2)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Lathe of Heaven]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tales from Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 5)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></name>
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