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Biography

Name: Michael Dorris
Variant Name: Milou North
Birth Date: January 30, 1945
Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Michael (Anthony) Dorris
3,808 words, approx. 13 pages
In his fiction, scholarly and popular nonfiction, and poetry Michael Dorris repeatedly returns to a few major themes: the centrality of family relationships, the renarrating of American history from Native American perspectives, and the necessity for...
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Biography of Michael Dorris
2,883 words, approx. 10 pages
The word interdisciplinary seems to have been invented just for Michael Dorris: his writing embraces both fiction and nonfiction, the themes are personal and political, and his concerns are for the individual and the group, particularly the Native...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Michael Dorris Information
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Michael Anthony Dorris (January 30, 1945 - April 11, 1997) was a prominent Native American novelist and scholar. His most famous works include the non-fiction The Broken Cord and the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. He was married to author Louise...


News and Journals
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
The anguished life of Michael Dorris.(NEWS)
08/03/1997: 9,676 words, approx. 32 pages
1/3 Copyright 1997 Star Tribune Michael Dorris' suicide in April ended an investigation into allegations of child abuse that shook his public image as a compassionate writer and father. Although many questions remain, a new image is emerging of the complex life...
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Newsweek
The death of a native son.(author Michael Dorris commits suicide)(Obituary)
04/28/1997: 1,316 words, approx. 4 pages
Dorris, age 52, checked into a Concord, NH, motor inn while on a one-day pass from a rehabilitation center, and committed suicide on April 11, 1997. He was known to be despondent about family troubles, including a menacing grown son, divorce from author Louise...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Michael Dorris
2,908 words, approx. 10 pages
[In the following excerpt of an essay devoted to Louise Erdrich's writings, Owens examines how Native American identity is constructed in Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.]
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Michael Dorris
1,496 words, approx. 5 pages
[In the following review, Guthrie asserts that "the alarming statistics and consequences of fetal alcohol syndrome are skillfully interwoven with the human story of one of its victims in The Broken Cord.]
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Michael Dorris
1,341 words, approx. 5 pages
[In the obituary below, Streitfeld relates the shock that greeted news of Dorris's death.]
 


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