Tehanu | About the Author

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in a fascinating Berkeley household on October 21, 1929. Her parents, Alfred and Theodora Kroeber, were intellectuals of a high order, he a famous anthropologist whose career spanned from Franz Boas at its beginning to Claude Levi-Strauss at its end; she a writer who frequently explored the stories within her husband's career, such as her narrative of the last member of a native American tribe in Ishi: Last of His Tribe (1964). A field worker among California Indians early in his career and a theorist of culture after heart trouble, Alfred Kroeber was a...

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