Ursula K. Le Guin

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(October 21, 1929 – January 23, 2018)

Ursula K. Le Guin, a United States pro writer of fantasy, was the first woman to win the Best Novel Hugo — for The Left Hand of Darkness in 1970. She was GoH at the 1975 Worldcon, Aussiecon, the first woman to be so honored alone. (Leigh Brackett in 1964 and Juanita Coulson in 1972, were jointly gohs with their husbands.)

She was first published in the ’60s with more-or-less straightforward sf and the classic Earthsea Trilogy of YA fantasy books.

She admitted to having been an editor of Venom. She lived in Portland, OR.

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