--1929: Ursula Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California to antrhopologist father, Alfred Kroeber, and mother/writer Theodora Covel Brown Kracaw Kroeber, who wrote ISHI IN TWO WORLDS.

-- 1951: She gets her BA from Radcliiffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also marries marries Charles A. Le Guin, a historian, in Paris in 1951.

--1952: Completes Masters' Degree frrom Columbia University in New York City

--1966: Her first novel, PLANET OF EEXILE, is published

--1968: Creates the land of EARTHSEAA, the fantastic world that becomes the setting for her four most famous books. The tetralogy includes: A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA (1968); THE TOMBS OF ATUAN (1970); THE FARTHEST SEA (1978); and TEHANU (1990). The final book, after a twelve year hiatus, completes a set that she always felt was missing something in the first three books.

--1970: Receives the Hugo Award for her novel, THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS

--1973Her children's tale, THE FARTHHEST SHORE, wins the National Book Award

--1975Another Hugo award is bestowedd upon Ursula Le Guin for her book THE DISPOSSESSED: An Ambiguous Utopia