Novelist Louise Erdrich married writer and anthropologist Michael Dorris in 1981. They met while she was a student at Dartmouth College and he was the director of the college’s new Native American studies program and a single adoptive father to three Native children. They collaborated on several works, including the short story “The World’s Greatest Fisherman” (winner of the 1982 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction) and Erdrich’s novel The Crown of Columbus (1991). Dorris’s own works include the award-winning nonfiction book The Broken Cord: A Family’s Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (1989). Erdrich adopted Dorris’s children and had three more children with him. The couple was in the process of divorcing when Dorris died by suicide in 1997.
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