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Michael Anthony Dorris (January 30, 1945 [1] – April 10, 1997) was an American novelist and scholar who was the first Chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth College. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His works include the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987) and the memoir The Broken Cord (1989).
During her first year, Erdrich met Michael Dorris, an anthropologist, writer, and then-director of the new Native American Studies program. While attending Dorris' class, she began to look into her own ancestry, which inspired her to draw from it for her literary work, such as poems, short stories, and novels.
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, ed. Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin (Mississippi UP, 1994) Louise Erdrich, The Art of Fiction No. 208 Interview with Louise Erdrich by Lisa Halliday in The Paris Review
The legendary author Louise Erdrich answers questions about her career and Native American literature. Louise Erdrich on ‘The Mighty Red’ and how her legendary books came to be Skip to main ...
After her success with Love Medicine and The Beet Queen, Erdrich was unsure of what to write about next. She had a 400-page manuscript that was to be the foundation for Tracks, but regarded it as her "burden". With the help of her husband, Michael Dorris, she decided she could use the story to continue the saga of Love Medicine and The Beet ...
At the start of Louise Erdrich’s stunning new novel, “The Night Watchman,” Thomas Wazhushk, Chippewa Council member and night watchman at a jewel bearing plant, studies a U.S. congressional ...
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is the debut novel of author Michael Dorris, published in 1987. It tells the story of three generations of Native American women: Rayona, who is half African-American, her mother Christine, and Christine's mother Aunt Ida. The story is told in three distinct sections, one for each woman.
Percival Everett's “James,” a reworking of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the enslaved Jim's perspective, is among the fiction finalists for the 11th annual Kirkus ...