"He grew wild, a thriving weed, a tall, quick boy, loud and proud and full of temper. With the few other children of the village he herded goats on the steep meadows above the river-springs; and when he was strong enough to push and pull the long bellows-sleeves, his father made him work as a smith's boy, at a high cost in blows and whippings."

—excerpt from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin


1911 - 2004