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Michael Dorris, who is part Native American, was born on January 30, 1945 in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from Georgetown University with an English and classics major in 1967, and later earned an anthropology degree and a masters of philosophy from Yale. He worked in Alaska for a while and finally settled in a teaching job at Dartmouth College. He created a foundation there called the Native American Studies Program. He married Louise Erdrich and later separated from her. After this separation and a devastating accusation made against him by his children, Dorris committed suicide in 1997.
Look at our commentaries on Sees Behind Trees and The Window Books by Michael Dorris
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