Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in Berkeley, in California, on 21 October, 1929. Today, Le Guin is considered one of the most important science fiction authors of all time and has won many literary awards. Daughter of an anthropologist, the author has a profound knowledge of the social sciences and attention can be noted in her novels to the issues of gender and social and cultural identity, but also themes such environmentalism and pacifism. In 1968 she published A Wizard of Earthsea, the first novel of the Earthsea cycle, which will become one of the most famous fantasy sagas. Her other novels also include The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.