daughter of Alfred Louis Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber spent her childhood in highly stimulating environment (community of Berkeley anthropologists) married historian Charles le Guin in 1953, stayed with him ever since 6 Hugo Awards; 8 Nebula Awards; 25 Locus Awards; 2nd woman honored (in 2003) as a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America main topics / influences: cultural anthropology & the Golden Bough; (jungian) archetypes; (philosophical) taoism; mythology two major cycles: Earthsea cycle (high fantasy) and Hainish cycle (soft sci-fi) in cca 20 minutes You will be asked a question: "Is the planet on which Earthsea cycle stories unfold part of the Ekumen/Hain universe ?"
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