Q: Who was Karl Kroeber?
A: Karl Kroeber was an American literary scholar who wrote about the English Romantics and American Indian literature.
Q: What was his profession?
A: He was professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.
Q: What did he write about?
A: He wrote about literary criticism and its relationship to ecology, traditional literature, and art history.
Q: Who were his parents?
A: His parents were Theodora and Alfred L. Kroeber, both anthropologists.
Q: Who is his sister?
A: His sister is the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
Q: Who are his children?
A: His children are Paul Kroeber, a linguist; Arthur Kroeber, a journalist and expert on the Chinese economy; and Katharine Kroeber Wiley, a writer.
Q: When did he die?
A: Karl Kroeber died of cancer on November 8th 2009 at the age of 82 years old.