Michael Dorris (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Michael Anthony Dorris was an author whose informal yet elegant writing style catapulted his books in several genres to the top of scholarly and popular best-seller lists in the 1980’s and 1990’s. His mother was a middle-class Kentuckian of German and Irish heritage and his father was a Washington state native of primarily American Indian ancestry (specifically Modoc and Coeur d’Alene). Dorris’s father entered the Army directly after high school and was stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, when he met Dorris’s mother. A few years after Dorris’s parents’ marriage, his father...
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