Parents were Charles Emmett Kracaw and Phoebe Jane Johnson. Husbands were Clifton Spencer Brown, Alfred Louis Kroeber and John Harrison Quinn. Children are Clifton Brown, Theodore Brown, Karl Kroeber and Ursula Kroeber.
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"Ishi" author Kroeber-Quinn Dies. Theodora Kroeber-Quinn, anthropologist, writer and scholar who introduced generations of readers to the folkways of California Indians, died Wednesday of cancer at her home in Berkeley. She was 82. Born in Denver, Colorado in 1897 she wrote "Ishi in Two Worlds," and "Ishi, Last of his Tribe," accounts of the "last wild Indian" in California. She also wrote other books on Indians and a number of children's books. "Ishi in Two Worls," which had its fifteenth English printing in 1977 has appeared in nine languages and is required reading on many college campuses. In it, she recounted the life of a stone age Indian who wandered naked to Oroville, Calif. in 1911 and later lived with her and her late husband, anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Her other books include the "Island Whale," and "Alred Kroeber, a Personal Configuration," a biography of the noted anthropologist, who was director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley She held a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She served briefly as a regent of the University of California from July 21, 1977 to March 1, 1978, after Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to fill the unexpired term of former regent William Forbers. William J. Coblentz, former regents chairman, called her "a woman of verse and wit whose life and interests were devoted to scholarship and to this university." Survivors include her husband John Harrison Quinn, three sons, all college professors, and a daughter, the science fiction author Ursula LeGuin, and also by twelve grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 6, 1979. Transcription by Mary Cummins
Obituary
"Ishi" author Kroeber-Quinn Dies. Theodora Kroeber-Quinn, anthropologist, writer and scholar who introduced generations of readers to the folkways of California Indians, died Wednesday of cancer at her home in Berkeley. She was 82. Born in Denver, Colorado in 1897 she wrote "Ishi in Two Worlds," and "Ishi, Last of his Tribe," accounts of the "last wild Indian" in California. She also wrote other books on Indians and a number of children's books. "Ishi in Two Worls," which had its fifteenth English printing in 1977 has appeared in nine languages and is required reading on many college campuses. In it, she recounted the life of a stone age Indian who wandered naked to Oroville, Calif. in 1911 and later lived with her and her late husband, anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Her other books include the "Island Whale," and "Alred Kroeber, a Personal Configuration," a biography of the noted anthropologist, who was director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley She held a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She served briefly as a regent of the University of California from July 21, 1977 to March 1, 1978, after Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to fill the unexpired term of former regent William Forbers. William J. Coblentz, former regents chairman, called her "a woman of verse and wit whose life and interests were devoted to scholarship and to this university." Survivors include her husband John Harrison Quinn, three sons, all college professors, and a daughter, the science fiction author Ursula LeGuin, and also by twelve grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 6, 1979. Transcription by Mary Cummins
Parents were Charles Emmett Kracaw and Phoebe Jane Johnson. Husbands were Clifton Spencer Brown, Alfred Louis Kroeber and John Harrison Quinn. Children are Clifton Brown, Theodore Brown, Karl Kroeber and Ursula Kroeber.
Obituary
"Ishi" author Kroeber-Quinn Dies. Theodora Kroeber-Quinn, anthropologist, writer and scholar who introduced generations of readers to the folkways of California Indians, died Wednesday of cancer at her home in Berkeley. She was 82. Born in Denver, Colorado in 1897 she wrote "Ishi in Two Worlds," and "Ishi, Last of his Tribe," accounts of the "last wild Indian" in California. She also wrote other books on Indians and a number of children's books. "Ishi in Two Worls," which had its fifteenth English printing in 1977 has appeared in nine languages and is required reading on many college campuses. In it, she recounted the life of a stone age Indian who wandered naked to Oroville, Calif. in 1911 and later lived with her and her late husband, anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Her other books include the "Island Whale," and "Alred Kroeber, a Personal Configuration," a biography of the noted anthropologist, who was director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley She held a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She served briefly as a regent of the University of California from July 21, 1977 to March 1, 1978, after Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to fill the unexpired term of former regent William Forbers. William J. Coblentz, former regents chairman, called her "a woman of verse and wit whose life and interests were devoted to scholarship and to this university." Survivors include her husband John Harrison Quinn, three sons, all college professors, and a daughter, the science fiction author Ursula LeGuin, and also by twelve grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 6, 1979. Transcription by Mary Cummins
Obituary
"Ishi" author Kroeber-Quinn Dies. Theodora Kroeber-Quinn, anthropologist, writer and scholar who introduced generations of readers to the folkways of California Indians, died Wednesday of cancer at her home in Berkeley. She was 82. Born in Denver, Colorado in 1897 she wrote "Ishi in Two Worlds," and "Ishi, Last of his Tribe," accounts of the "last wild Indian" in California. She also wrote other books on Indians and a number of children's books. "Ishi in Two Worls," which had its fifteenth English printing in 1977 has appeared in nine languages and is required reading on many college campuses. In it, she recounted the life of a stone age Indian who wandered naked to Oroville, Calif. in 1911 and later lived with her and her late husband, anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Her other books include the "Island Whale," and "Alred Kroeber, a Personal Configuration," a biography of the noted anthropologist, who was director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley She held a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She served briefly as a regent of the University of California from July 21, 1977 to March 1, 1978, after Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to fill the unexpired term of former regent William Forbers. William J. Coblentz, former regents chairman, called her "a woman of verse and wit whose life and interests were devoted to scholarship and to this university." Survivors include her husband John Harrison Quinn, three sons, all college professors, and a daughter, the science fiction author Ursula LeGuin, and also by twelve grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 6, 1979. Transcription by Mary Cummins
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