It was rejected,
but Amazing Stories was to publish her first science fiction more than twenty years later. She received a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Radcliffe in 1951 and an M.A. in French and Italian Renaissance literature from Columbia in 1952. On a Fulbright Fellowship to France in 1953, she met and married a fellow Fulbrighter, history professor Charles A. Le Guin. She abandoned graduate studies to raise a family: the Le Guins have three children and reside in Portland, Oregon.
Le Guin started writing, according to an introductory note in her short-story collection, The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975), at about age five. She wrote poetry, some of which was published, and stories, which were not. In the note she mentions a science-fiction story written in 1942, when she was twelve. It was rejected by John Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science-Fiction. Her next try at the genre was accepted by Cele Goldsmith Lalli for Fantastic-twenty years later.
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