Timeless Woman, Writer and Interpreter of the California Indian World; Transcript, 1976-1978 - Couverture souple
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One thinks not of the life but of the lives of Theodora Kroeber-Q uinn, the several lives that fitted one on to the other and sometimes overlapped, but that had each its own existence and character. In a general way and without drawing sharp lines of distinction, these were: girlhood in Telluride, Colorado, when it was an active mining town; school years in California, first marriage and first widowhood; the long central period as wife and partner of the great anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber; then widowhood again and third marriage. The second marriage was to a man much older than she; the third to one much younger; both were eminently successful in their different ways. Overlapping the last two lives and continuing until her death in 1979 was her career as a distinguished writer, a career that had its beginnings in the scientific studies of Kroeber ethnography turned by her into literature and that grew naturally from there until she stood entirely on her own as writer and public citizen. A person could know her in one of these lives and be virtually unaware of the others. I, for example, was acquainted with Kroeber for many years in connection with his publishing activities thus professionally and not personally without knowing Theodora at all except for the occasional encounter in Grand Central Station or elsewhere. It was only after his death that I came into contact with her when she published her best known book, I shi InT wo Worlds. There followed other books, other connections, until I knew her well as friend and neighbor, knew her not through Kroeber but because of what she herself was. I first entered the house on Arch Street when she was living there alone; my wife and I continued to visit there through her marriage to John Quinn. Of her long career as perhaps the central figure in an extended family, and of her earlier life, I know only what she s
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