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NAME: Ursula K. Le Guin
BIRTH DATE: October 21, 1929 (Age: 83)
EDUCATION: Radcliffe College, Columbia University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Berkeley, California
Full Name: Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
ZODIAC SIGN: Libra

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Ursula Le Guin is a writer known for her science fiction and high fantasy works and her various essays.

Ursula K. Le Guin biography

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Ursula Le Guin's first three novels, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions, put her on the sci-fi map, and in 2008, 40 years later, Le Guin made literary news with Lavinia, a metatextual examination of a minor character from Virgil's Aeneid. Le Guin also wrote essays on fantasy fiction and feminist issues, and she was awarded the Living Legend Medal by the Library of Congress.

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