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I'm a teacher, and my seventh grade English class has been reading A Wizard of Earthsea for the past three weeks. We're wrapping up today in class. 

What do you hope young people take from the novel? What was the inspiration for it? Did you have someone in mind when you created Ged's character?

Thanks for writing the novel. I've enjoyed teaching it for two years now, and the students have been thrilled to read it. It's not like anything else we read, so quite a few students really appreciate it.

Joe

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