What is Karl Kroeber?
'''Karl Kroeber''' (November 24, 1926 – November 8, 2009<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014]</ref>) was an [[United States|American]] literary scholar. He wrote about the English Romantics and [[American Indian literature]]. He was the son of [[Theodora Kroeber|Theodora]] and [[Alfred L. Kroeber]]. They were both anthropologists. He was professor of English and [[comparative literature]] at [[Columbia University]]. He wrote about [[literary criticism]] and its relationship to [[ecology]], traditional literature, and [[art history]]. Kroeber's sister was the science fiction writer [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. His children were [[Paul Kroeber]], a linguist; Arthur Kroeber, a journalist and expert on the Chinese economy; and Katharine Kroeber Wiley, a writer. Kroeber died of cancer on November 8, 2009. He was 82 years old.<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.bwog.net/articles/karl_kroeber_1926_2009 |title= Karl Kroeber, 1926–2009 |journal= [[The Bwog]] |publisher= [[The Blue and White]] |date= November 9, 2009 |access-date= 2009-11-09 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=Spectator>{{cite news |url= http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/11/11/columbia-mourns-loss-karl-kroeber |title= Columbia mourns loss of Karl Kroeber |author= Davis, Alexa |date= November 11, 2009 |publisher= [[Columbia Daily Spectator]] |access-date= 2009-11-11}}</ref> ==Publications== ===Books=== * ''Artistry in Native American Myths''. Lincoln: [[University of Nebraska Press]], 1998. {{ISBN|0-8032-2737-X}} * ''British Romantic Art''. Berkeley: [[University of California Press]], 1986. {{ISBN|0-520-05484-9}} * ''Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind''. New York: [[Columbia University Press]], 1994. {{ISBN|0-231-10028-0}} * ''Ishi in Three Centuries'', with [[Clifton Kroeber]]. Lincoln: [[University of Nebraska Press]], 2003. {{ISBN|0-8032-2757-4}} * ''Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends.''Ed. Ox