Theodora Kroeber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Theodora Kroeber

American anthropologist

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1897

Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, United States

Date of Death: 04-Jul-1979

Profession: writer, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Theodora Covel Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Kroeber grew up in the mining town of Telluride, before enrolling in the University of California, Berkeley, for undergraduate and graduate studies.
Married once in 1921 and widowed in 1923, in 1926 she married anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber.
She had two children with Kroeber, and two others from her first marriage.
The Kroebers traveled together to many of Alfred's field sites, including an archaeological dig in Peru.
Nine years after Alfred's death in 1960, Theodora Kroeber married artist John Quinn. Theodora Kroeber began writing professionally late in her life, after her children had grown up.
She released a collection of translated Native American traditional narratives in 1959, and in 1961 published Ishi in Two Worlds, an account of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi people of Northern California whom Alfred Kroeber had befriended and studied between 1911 and 1916.
This volume sold widely, and received high praise from commentators for its writing.
Kroeber published several other works in her later years, including a collaboration with her daughter Ursula K.
Le Guin and several anthropological texts.
She served as a Regent of the University of California for a year before her death in 1979.