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Joan D. Vinge. She's the reason I'm a writer and an anthropologist. Her style and characters are amazing.
This was true for me, too. Her anthropology background was one of the main things that convinced me that linguistics would be a good direction for me to go in, if I wanted to write. (Tolkien, too, of course, but he is just so far out there he didn't make following that path seem *possible*.)
Later, I had the great good fortune of having her as one of my Clarion West instructors. Which convinced me that if I could pick anyone in the universe to be my mom, that I would pick her. She is that cool.