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	Dorris1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Dorris is a writer of great talent who also happens to be a father children with fetal alcohol syndrome.
		Dorris was in Seattle in September 1996 as part of an international conference on fetal alcohol syndrome and he shared is thoughts, words and very soul with an audience who clearly felt they owed him much.
		Dorris talked about the needs he sees in the FAS arena, and coined the term "Post-Vention." "We need to shake up society, we cannot stick our heads in the sand," he said.
	www.fas-region3.com /Dorris1.html (1052 words)

	Michael Dorris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Award winning author Michael Dorris, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Milou North," was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1945 and died on April 10, 1997 at the young age of 52.
		Dorris founded the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth and in 1971 became one of the first American bachelors to adopt a child, a boy with fetal alcohol syndrome.
		Dorris married Louise Erdrich in 1981 and to the public eye the two were a seemingly perfect literary couple.
	www.geocities.com /tonnelso/michael-dorris.htm (188 words)

	The Problem Novel
		Dorris was known most widely for The Broken Cord (1989), an examination of fetal alcohol syndrome, a work made all the more powerful by its inclusion of the personal story of the life of his adopted son, Adam, who was born to an alcoholic mother.
		Dorris destroys the stereotype of American Indians as a savage people frozen in the past by turning it "inside out." True, the setting is in the past, but in this setting the American Indian characters act in accordance with their own world view and civilization without the "benefit" of non-Indian commentary or interpretation.
		Analysis of Michael Dorris' young adult fiction indicates a core of recurring and unifying themes, including the importance of family and of intergenerational understanding in the development of healthy adolescent identity, resolution of confusion regarding role-bound behavior based on gender, and the vision quest as a means to resolve the adolescent identity crisis.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ALAN/spring98/charles.html (2715 words)

	Amazon.com: Broken Cord: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Dorris, a young unmarried college teacher and writer, adopts a Native American boy "Adam" whose developmental problems, he believes, are the result of poor nutrition, poor health care, and lack of proper parenting.
		Michael Dorris, a single 26 year old professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth, decided he wanted to adopt a child by himself, he didn't really know what he was getting himself into in The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris, a book that should be highly recommended to any reader.
		Dorris, Michael and Louise Erdrich; The Crown of Columbus.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060916826?v=glance (3112 words)

	Salon \| A broken life
		In the past few days, his family and friends -- Dorris' circle was immense -- have come forward and spoken, in part to set the factual record straight, and in larger part because now that his life has ended, the battle over his legacy has begun in earnest.
		Police conducted a search of Dorris' Minneapolis home less than two weeks before his death; among the items seized was a diary kept by one of his daughters.
		Still, says Douglas Kelley, who was representing Dorris in the matter and is now handling his estate, his client was fully aware of the ramifications of publicity surrounding the case -- not only regarding his professional stature but the already tenuous relations among his immediate family.
	www.salon.com /april97/dorris970421.html (787 words)

	SALON \| Media Circus
		The service, which followed one held earlier this month at Dartmouth, where Dorris was an adjunct professor of Native American studies, was attended by close to 100 of Dorris' friends, family members and colleagues, and featured a series of testimonials from a range of figures in the publishing and media world.
		Dorris' friends adopted a tone that might be termed celebratorily mournful, capturing the full weight of Dorris' absence by talking about the pleasure they had taken in his presence.
		The Michael Dorris who emerged from his friends' recollections was, unsurprisingly, a complicated figure.
	www.salon.com /june97/media/media970626.html (719 words)

	Artful Dodge - Original Interviews - Michael Dorris
		Michael Dorris is a writer keenly sensitive to the complications involved in trying to apprehend and convey other people's experience-be they members of his own family or the products of his imagination.
		But Dorris is also aware that he speaks "just as one parent," and it is here that we see his reliance on the power and purpose of story-telling, his awareness that his own account may indeed resonate with others, though it will hardly attempt to rob them of the truth of their own experiences, either.
		Dorris: I think writing fiction in general, especially first person fiction, is like trying on another life, and trying to sink as deeply into that experience as you possibly can and see the world through the eyes of a given character.
	www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/interviews/dorris.htm (5906 words)

	UCLA Today: OF LIFE AND LITERARY REPUTE
		Dorris killed himself in a Concord, N.H., motel room the night of April 10, shortly before his well-known wife, author Louise Erdich, filed child sexual abuse charges against him.
		Dorris helped create and develop Dartmouth’s Native American studies program, one of the first in the country.
		Dorris’ most well-received work was "The Broken Cord," a compelling account of the fetal-alcohol syndrome-related problems of Abel.
	www.today.ucla.edu /1997/970523OfLife.html (355 words)

	Author finds gender split in reviews of 'Cloud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Dorris, who is drawing mixed reviews for his new novel, "Cloud Chamber" (Scribner, $24), says opinion seems to break down pretty evenly along gender lines: Women reviewers being positive, men less enthusiastic.
		Dorris joined the conversation (he didn't use his name) and gently informed the chat group that he was certain Michael Dorris was a man.
		Dorris, well known for his writing about American Indians (as is his wife, Louise Erdrich), grew up in Montana and Kentucky and claims Native American and Irish ancestry.
	www.jsonline.com /news/sunday/books/0209lois.html (601 words)

	Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erdrich met Michael Dorris again when she was invited to return to Dartmouth to read her work.
		Dorris returned to Dartmouth that same year and the two were married in October of 1981.
		Dorris had adopted three children when he was single.
	www.unl.edu /plains/publications/resource/erdrich.html (1726 words)

	Newsweek: The death of a native son.(author Michael Dorris commits suicide)(Obituary)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Michael Dorris was one haft of a glamorous, lauded literary couple.
		MICHAEL DORRIS AND LOUISE Erdrich were the poster couple of multicultural literature--the best-paid, best-selling, best-reviewed Native American...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19336494&refid=ip_almanac_hf (216 words)

	★ Reviews for Dorris,_Michael
		Dorris was, he was still an exceptional author and this book, like his others is proof of it.
		Dorris is such a skillful writer, that he writes each story in first person, changing to match each character's age, gender and the dialect of the era.
		As Michael Dorris is a Native American boy himself I bet he wrote this book to express his childhood event or one of another's.
	authors.booksunderreview.com /D/Dorris,_Michael/Dorris,_Michael_2.html (4645 words)

	Michael Dorris
		Dorris is daring in the range of his narrative and successful in casting his characters' deep humanity.
		When Michael Dorris, 26, single, working on his doctorate, and part Indian himself, applied to adopt an Indian child, his request was speedily granted.
		Dorris' casual sentences are simple and beautiful, showing in their very particularity that Moss discovers the wonder of familiar things.
	www.ualr.edu /teenread/id108.htm (1045 words)

	Dorris2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Between April and August, more information about rifts in Dorris' marriage to poet and novelist Louise Erdrich, and about his often tumultuous relationship with their children has been exhumed.
		Michael's life with Abel was taxing beyond belief.
		After decades, a writer as insightful as Dorris must have seen the destructive potential of such lives as enormously depressing.
	www.fas-region3.com /Dorris2.html (817 words)

	Michael Dorris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Dorris was born on January 30, 1945.
		Dorris graduated from Georgetown University in 1967 with an English and Classics major.
		Dorris' ancestry, part American Indian, led him to ethnographic fieldwork in an Athapaskan village of Tyonek, Alaska.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/dorris_michael.html (149 words)

	Review Michael Dorris - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guests, was a great book By: Michael Dorris, even though he committed suicide, he was still a smart person.
		In this, a collection of essays published during the 1980s and 1990s in periodicals throughout America, Dorris brings his chronicler's eye and compassionate heart to the thoughts he shares.
		It was written by the then husband and wife team of Michael Dorris ("A Yellow Raft in Blue Water") and Louise Erdrich ("Love Medicine").
	computertoaster.com /reviews/authorsearch_Michael%20Dorris/mode_books (846 words)

	The Global Citizen: Our Micheal Dorris
		On the Sunday after Michael Dorris committed suicide, the news was announced, gently and sadly, in a church here in the valley where he lived.
		To read that book is not only to share Michael's outrage about the lot of Native Americans and about fetal alcohol syndrome, it is also to see into his heart and to have a firm sense that it was a heart of compassion and courage.
		There it is, reproduced in millions of copies, a heartbreaking picture of Michael, or even more heartbreaking, of Louise and Michael at the peak of their happiness, and an account that fits itself into an all-too-common media bias: if someone is beautiful, talented, rich and famous, they must be hiding some terrible flaw.
	www.pcdf.org /meadows/dorris.htm (907 words)

	Michael Dorris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dorris MC, Klein RM, Everling S, Munoz DP (2002) Contribution of the primate superior colliculus to inhibition of return.
		Dorris MC, Paré M, Munoz DP (1997) Neuronal Activity in Monkey Superior Colliculus Related to the Initiation of Saccadic Eye Movements.
		Dorris MC, Munoz DP (1995) A neural correlate for the gap effect on saccadic reaction times in monkey.
	brain.phgy.queensu.ca /dorrislab (572 words)

	Introduction: Michael Dorris' Cloud Chamber - Editor
		Michael Dorris' perceptive new novel, Cloud Chamber, opens with just such a moment in the life of seventeen-year-old Rose Mannion, "a force to behold" in nineteenth-century County Roscommon, Ireland.
		Dorris is also the author of the highly praised novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water; numerous nonfiction works (including Rooms in the House of Stone and Paper Trail); three novels for young adults (Morning Girl, Guests, and Sees behind Trees); and a collection of short stories (Working Men).
		Eight contrasting voices narrate the memories and myths of five generations, revealing familial patterns--legacies of deceit, betrayal, determination, and love that are played out in generation after generation.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1997/May/Sa16208.htm (265 words)

	Guests
		Moss, the Native American hero of Michael Dorris' book Guests, learns to recognize the complex emotions within himself and his elders when his tribe invites white settlers to share the harvest feast.
		Michael Dorris describes why he became a writer and how he created his characters on this Web page by Scholastic.
		This article from the Alan Review analyzes Michael Dorris' "small but important body of work written for students in grades 4 through 8" and provides insights for educators who are teaching these books.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /page/3580.html (1169 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: Nation -- Michael Dorris Dead at 52 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CONCORD, New Hampshire: Michael Dorris, the author who helped spread awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome with his award winning book "The Broken Cord," has died from an apparent suicide at age 52.
		According to Concord police, Dorris was found in motel room and apparently suffocated himself with a plastic bag.
		Dorris, who was working on a follow-up to "The Broken Cord" entitled "Matter of Conscience," was on leave as an English professor at Dartmouth at the time of his death.
	www.time.com /time/nation/printout/0,8816,7981,00.html (308 words)

	Interviews: Native Writers
		Michael Dorris' debut children's book, Morning Girl, is a seventy-two page novel for readers eight and up about a Taino family.
		Dorris grew up reservation reading of Native peoples were unlike anybody he knew or wanted to know.
		Dorris also hopes that this story will carry messages beyond its historical setting into present time, "where people as myopic as Columbus fail to see the beauty and complexity of a society that is unfamiliar".
	www.wildewritingworks.com /int/native.html (941 words)

	Hot Ink
		ast night, a memorial service for Michael Dorris was held at the New York City public library.
		Dorris, a prolific writer of prose that carried rare emotional power, committed suicide earlier this year.
		Dorris committed suicide under a cloud of accusations by two of his adopted children.
	www.hotink.com /72997.html (822 words)

	Louise Erdrich: Online Research Guide
		"Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris" in Booklist (ISSN 0006-7385).
		Dorris is asked about his writing process, revision, the dynamic of a husband-wife literary collaboration, and his opinion on whether artists/writers should be social critics and political in their writing.
		Dorris calls Erdrich his "ideal reader," and "the major influence" on his writing.(193,188; italics in original) He also says that he learned a lot about dialogue from plays, "But more than from anyone [he’s] learned from Louise."(196)
	www.west.asu.edu /jbuenke/erdrich/criticism/chavkin-chavkin.html (1318 words)

	Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA): NOTED AUTHOR MICHAEL DORRIS COMMITS SUICIDE.(Lifestyle)(Obituary)@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Award-winning writer Michael Dorris - whose heart-breaking memoir, ``The Broken Cord,'' brought fetal alcohol syndrome to wide public attention - committed suicide last Friday in Concord, N.H., local police said.
		Dorris, 52, was found to have suffocated himself with a plastic bag in a motel room.
		Dorris and Louise Erdrich, probably America's most prominent literary couple, were in the process of ending their 16-year marriage.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:64623043&refid=ip_almanac_hf (210 words)

	Dorris, Michael Anthony -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		(or Michael, or Mihai) (born 1921), king of Romania, born in Sinaia, Romania; in 1927 succeeded his grandfather, Ferdinand I, his father, Carol II, having given up his rights to the throne; regency during reign, which lasted until father's return to throne in 1930; again king 1940 when his father abdicated; abdicated 1947.
		Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and others reminisce about 1982's unforgettable championship game between the Hoyas and the Tar Heels.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9114677?tocId=9114677 (613 words)

	A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
		"Dorris' first novel is an involving and insightful look at three generations of a family...Rosenblat's narration is extraordinary as she creates and maintains separate and distinct voices for the three women.
		"Critics have described Michael Dorris's acclaimed debut as a braid: Each life is one strand interwoven to create a whole.
		"Michael Dorris's first novel comes to life in this fully voiced reading by Barbara Rosenblat...she gives each of these women - ranging in age from youth through old age -a strength of voice that matches their strengths of character.
	www.audiobookshelf.com /yraft.html (404 words)

	Salon \| Word by Word: Anne Lamott's online diary
		When we met he was still a highly regarded man, had a number of bestsellers and beautiful children, honors and gratitude heaped upon him for a life of energetic activism.
		This was where I recently started to hear that all sorts of posthumous tributes to Michael were going to be rescinded, this was when I began to feel most troubled.
		But I don't believe Michael had bad intentions -- I don't think he was as depraved, say, as the Sean Penn character in "Dead Man Walking," who got lucky and did not run out of time.
	www.salon.com /july97/mothers/lamott970703.html (1792 words)

	MDO - A letter of many thanks to Michael Dorris - 04/17/1997
		Tuesday morning, when a friend told me of Michael Dorris' death, I wept again.
		I telephoned various offices and departments to learn whether and when a gathering for this writer, this man, this anthropologist, this father, this befriended of students, this struggling human being would happen.
		Michael Dorris, your life, your articles, books and interviews have spoken to me on all my paths.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/1997/04/17/editorial_opinions/otele.op (603 words)

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