Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color on a book jacket. So, through many later, lily-white Geds, Ruth Robbins's painting for the first edition-the fine, strong profile of a young man with copper-brown skin-was, to me, the book's one true cover.
( Ursula K. Le Guin )
[ A Wizard of Earthsea ]
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