Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an author of science fiction and speculative fiction.Le Guin's first book, "Rocannon's World," was published in 1966, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, as well as poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books.Le Guin won many awards, including eight Hugos, six Nebulas, and twenty-two Locus Awards, and became a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The U.S. Library of Congress named her a Living Legend in 2000, and in 2014, she won the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.Le Guin received an M.A. in French.