The reason Todd Barton called a 20-year-old college junior was because he knew I had an interest in scientific illustration (I was pursuing a double major in art and anthropology) and had seen a fair amount of my student work. I figured that I should memorize the author’s name so I could find them and finish them some day. I had read one and a half books of the Earthsea Trilogy in high school, but had to give the set back to my friend so never finished the rest. In the summer of 1982 when I was 20 years-old, I got a call from Todd Barton, the then music director for the Ashland Shakespeare Festival and a former teacher of mine at the University of Oregon, asking if I would be interested in working on a project with Ursula Le Guin and him. I worked on several book projects with her, and kept in touch over the years. She was very generous in her collaborations. I am fortunate to have been one of the many people whom Ursula Le Guin brought into her creative universe. I knew she was getting older, but she still seemed invincible to me.
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