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Ursula K. Le Guin

American fantasy and science fiction author

1929 - 2018

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Her biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2024). Ursula K. Le Guin is the 97th most popular writer (up from 655th in 2024), the 83rd most popular biography from United States (up from 675th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Writer.

Ursula K. Le Guin is most famous for her work in science fiction and fantasy. She is best known for her Earthsea series, which was published in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Ursula K. Le Guin climbed 6,325 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #7,240 to #915.

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Ursula K. Le Guin ranks #83 among 23,232 people in Pantheon born in United States, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Ursula K. Le Guin's biography appears in 82 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 96% of all Writers.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Ursula K. Le Guin ranks 97 out of 7,707. Before her are Kurt Vonnegut, Giorgio Vasari, Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Louisa May Alcott, and Erich Maria Remarque. After her are Isaac Asimov, Paulo Coelho, Virginia Woolf, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas fils, and Miyamoto Musashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ursula K. Le Guin ranks 9. Before her are Anne Frank, Yasser Arafat, Imelda Marcos, Audrey Hepburn, Lev Yashin, and Milan Kundera. After her are Bud Spencer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, Imre Kertész, Sergio Leone, and Ed Asner. Among people deceased in 2018, Ursula K. Le Guin ranks 5. Before her are Stephen Hawking, Aretha Franklin, George H. W. Bush, and Barbara Bush. After her are Kofi Annan, Charles Aznavour, Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Kamprad, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Stan Lee.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ursula K. Le Guin ranks 83 out of 23,232. Before her are Barbara Bush (1925), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Warren Buffett (1930), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Patrick Swayze (1952), and Charles Lindbergh (1902). After her are Helen Keller (1880), B.B. King (1925), Brigham Young (1801), Jack London (1876), Stanley Kubrick (1928), and Robin Williams (1951).

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Among Writers In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ursula K. Le Guin ranks 12. Before her are Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), and Louisa May Alcott (1832). After her are Jack London (1876), Stephen King (1947), Ezra Pound (1885), Dr. Seuss (1904), Henry David Thoreau (1817), and H. P. Lovecraft (1890).

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