K is for...

By Michael Huang on June 6, 2006 8:45 PM | 0 Comments

I just finished reading A Wizard of Earthsea, the first book in the Earthsea series of books by Ursula K. LeGuin. I didn't realize until I read the author info on the back flap of the book, that the K in Ursula K. LeGuin is for Kroeber. Kroeber, as in the daughter of Alfred L. Kroeber, the famous anthropologist that Kroeber Hall and Kroeber Fountain on the U.C. Berkeley campus is named after.




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