An Ursula K. Le Guin Bibliography: Biographical & Contact Information

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Biographical

Born 21 October 1929, Berkeley, California, nee Ursula Kroeber. Grew up in Berkeley. Daughter of Alfred L. Kroeber (anthropologist) and Theodora Covel Brown Kracaw Kroeber (writer, author of Ishi in Two Worlds (1961); The Inland Whale; etc.).

Attended Radcliffe College (BA, 1951) and graduate school at Columbia University (AM, 1952, in French and Italian Renaissance literature). (Studied Romance Literatures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, esp. French.)

"She met and married Charles A. Le Guin (pronounced Luh Gwinn) while they were both on Fulbrights in France" (1). Married 1953. He became a Professor of French History at Portland State College, Oregon. They have three children: Elisabeth, Caroline, and Theodore; and three grandchildren.

She has published over one hundred short stories collected in eight volumes; two collections of essays and a third forthcoming in 2003; thirteen books for children; five volumes of poetry; and nineteen novels.

Contact / Agent Information

Ms. Le Guin's email address and contact information are not available on this website. Visit her personal website at http://www.ursulakleguin.com or contact her agents or publishers.

Publishers:
Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022; http://www.harpercollins.com/).

Agents:
Literary Agent: Virginia Kidd Agency, P.O. Box 278, Milford, PA 18337; voice, 570-296-6205; fax 570-296-7266; email: vkagency@ptd.net
Dramatic Agent: Bill Contardi, The William Morris Agency, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019; voice 212-903-1585

Manuscript Collection: University of Oregon Library, Eugene, Oregon

Collaborators

• Elinor Armer - musical collaborator
• Todd Barton - musical collaborator
• Margaret Chodos-Irvine - collaborator on Always Coming Home
• Vonda McIntyre - web-mistress & co-author
• Henk Pander - poetry collaborator

(1) Ellison, Harlan. Introduction to The Word for World is Forest in Again, Dangerous Visions (1972)

(2) Publisher's blurb. Le Guin, Ursula. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) book jacket.

Other Sources:

Contemporary Authors, 1996 Online Edition

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 1995

Blurbs on various book jackets.