Encounter With an Angry God is the story of the author's life with John Peabody Harrington, controversial linguist-ethnographer (whose lifetime data on American Indian tribes filled whole warehouses) from the time when, as an eager 19-year-old student, she met him unhappily teaching a summer linguistics class and looking, she thought romantically, "like an angry god." Bedazzled by "a scholar, a scientist, who was also young and beautiful," she was...