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(1929-2018) Author. Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, and died in Portland, Oregon. She received a master’s degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952.

Full Name

Ursula K. Le Guin

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1929

BIRTH

Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929.

1951

OTHER

Ms. Le Guin received a master's degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952.

1966

LITWORK

Rocannon's World
Ace Books

Novel.

1968

LITWORK

A Wizard of Earthsea
Houghton Mifflin Company
0395276535 / 978-0395276532
Novel.

1969

LITWORK

The Left Hand of Darkness
TBS The Book Service Ltd
0356029476 / 978-0356029474
Novel.

1971

LITWORK

The Tombs of Atuan
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
0689206801 / 978-0689206801
Novel.

1971

LITWORK

The Lathe of Heaven
Charles Scribner's Sons
0684125293 / 978-0684125299
Novel.

1972

LITWORK

The Farthest Shore
Atheneum
0689300549 / 978-0689300547
Novel.

1974

LITWORK

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Harper & Row

Novel.

1990

LITWORK

Tehanu
Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition (2012)
1442459956 / 978-1442459953
Novel.

1995

LITWORK

Four Ways to Forgiveness
Harper Prism
0061052345 / 978-0061052347
Novel.

2000

LITWORK

The Telling
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0151005672 / 978-0151005673
Novel.

2001

LITWORK

The Other Wind
Harcourt
0151006849 / 978-0151006847
Novel.

2018

DEATH

Ursula K. Le Guin died at her home in Portland, Oregon, on January 22, 2018.

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