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...very long ago, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris were a literary love match of nearly mythic proportions. Married since 1981, they were best-selling and award-winning authors who were raising six children together; they gave interview upon interview describing how they critiqued each other's work, never allowing a single manuscript to leave their home without, as Dorris once put it, "consensus on every word." While some authors vary the dedications in their books, ticking off family and friends as the years go by, for Erdrich and Dorris, it seemed, there was only one Muse--the other. "To Michael...
...short order, the curtains of Dorris' and Erdrich's charmed lives were drawn back. It turned out the couple had separated about a year ago, and were in the middle of difficult divorce proceedings. The three Native American children the couple had adopted had led troubled lives to varying degrees--one had even been charged with trying to extort money from Dorris and Erdrich. And Dorris was living under another cloud: he was being investigated by the Minneapolis police department on charges that he had sexually abused one or more of his young daughters. Just nine days before his death...
...achievements, Dorris' life was plagued by hardship. In 1991, his adopted son, Reynold Abel, died after being hit by a car. In 1995 another adopted son, Jeffrey, was was put on trial for trying to extort $15,000 from him. The impending divorce from his wife, the novelist Louise Erdrich, added to his travails. 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...
...Best American Short Stories, an anthology of short fiction published in magazines across the United States and Canada in the previous year. For each volume, one of the nation's most distinguished novelists is chosen to be the guest editor (recent past editors include Richard Ford, Louise Erdrich, and Jane Smiley). The editor is blindly presented with 120 stories, chosen by the series editor, Katrina Kenison. Blind presentation means that the authors names are concealed up until publication of the selection. This year's guest editor John Edgar Wideman (two time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award...
...have been helpful had he researched his facts first. Would you call former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop an 'obnoxious drunken laggard?" How about IBM Chief Executive Officer Lewis Gerstner? Nationally acclaimed prize-winning author Louise Erdrich? How about former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) or Secretary of Labor and former Kennedy School Professor Robert S. Reich? Maybe U.S. News and World Report Economics Editor Susan Dentzer or Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) are 'drunken laggards.' If not, then surely John Guare, playwright and author of "Six Degrees of Separation" or Tonyaward winning Broadway director Jerry Zaks are looses...