Ursula K. Le Guin
Biography
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was a renowned American author born on October 21, 1929, in Berkeley, California, to anthropologist parents Theodora and Alfred Louis Kroeber. She achieved critical and commercial success with novels like A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), which cemented her status as a major voice in American science fiction and fantasy. Le Guin's work spanned nearly sixty years, producing over twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories.