Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (March 24, 1897 - July 4, 1979) was a writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe of California, and for her retelling of traditional narratives from several Native Californian cultures.
Theodora Kracaw was born in Colorado and later moved to California, where she studied at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1920 she earned her Master's degree in clinical...
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Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (March 24, 1897 - July 4, 1979) was a writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe of California, and for her retelling of traditional narratives from several Native Californian cultures.
Theodora Kracaw was born in Colorado and later moved to California, where she studied at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1920 she earned her Master's degree in clinical psychology.
After she was left a widow with two children, she studied anthropology, met and married Alfred Kroeber, one of the leading American anthropologists of his generation and himself a widower. After his death, Theodora Kroeber would write his biography. Writer Ursula K. Le Guin is their daughter, and English professor Karl Kroeber their son. Her sons from her first marriage were Ted and Clifton Kroeber, historian.
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