Note: Daughter of Theodora Kroeber About the spelling of the last name: Her husband's birth name was Charles LeGuin. They were married in France, and "when they applied for a marriage license, a 'triumphant bureaucrat' told Charles his Breton name was 'spelled wrong' without a space, so when they married they both took the name Le Guin." -- Julie Phillips, The New Yorker, 2016-10-17