\[ **BT: [[literature]]** ] --- # Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) > ‘Ursula Kroeber was born in 1929 and grew up in Berkeley, California. Her parents were anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber, author of *Ishi*. She attended Radcliffe College and did graduate work at Columbia University. She married historian Charles A. Le Guin, in Paris in 1953; they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in 1958, and had three children and four grandchildren. Le Guin died peacefully in her home in January, 2018.’[^1] --- ## ↬ external resources + [Is Gender Necessary? Redux](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-is-gender-necessary-redux) - [Ursula K. Le Guin’s Official Website](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/) - [Blog](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog) — Ursula K. Le Guin’s blog, maintained from 2010–2017. + [Ursula on Writing](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/miscellany) — miscellany including ‘A Few Words to a Young Writer’, ‘A Rejection Letter’, ‘What Makes a Story’, ‘Plausibility in Fantasy’, etc. - [On Rules of Writing, or, Riffing on Rechy](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/on-rules-of-writing) - [A Few Words to a Young Writer](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-few-words-to-a-young-writer) - [What Makes a Story](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/what-makes-a-story) - [Plausibility in Fantasy](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/plausibility-in-fantasy-an-open-letter) - [Plausibility Revisted](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/plausibility-revisited) - [Some Genres I Write In](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/some-genres-i-write-in) [^1]: ‘About Ursula K. Le Guin’, *Ursula K. Le Guin*, accessed 15 April 2024, https://www.ursulakleguin.com/about-ursula.