Re: Ursula LeGuin

From: Martha Bartter (MBARTTER@TRUMAN.EDU)
Date: Wed Apr 23 1997 - 07:11:05 PDT


At 14:03 4/23/97 +0100, you wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Clarke girls wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> I was talking to an Anthropology grad student who like Ursula LeGuin
>> because of the influences she got from her father who is a well-known
>> Anthropologist... I didn't know this about her. Can anyone fill me in?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jacquie
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>Not only was her father, A.L. Korover, an anthropologist, but so was her
>mother: see her lovely book _Isihi, Last of His Tribe_.

Yes, but it's spelled Kroeber, please, like Ursula K's middle name. Theodora
Le Guin, author of _Ishi_, was his second wife; mother of his two children
and certainly a talented author, whether or not she was also an
anthropologist.

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Martha Bartter
Truman State University



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