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Dorris and Erdrich contributed to each other's writing and together wrote romance fiction under the pseudonym Milou North to supplement their income. Many of the latter pieces were published in the British magazine Woman. Erdrich dedicated her novels The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), and The Bingo Palace to Dorris.

After learning that he was the target of a sex abuse investigation in Minneapolis, based on accusations by two of his adopted daughters, Dorris apparently committed suicide on April 11, 1997, in a Concord, New Hampshire, motel. Dorris earned a bachelor of arts degree from Georgetown University in 1967.

Dorris is the author, co-author, or editor of a dozen books in the genres of fiction, memoirs and essays, and non-fiction. His Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987) has been named among the "finest literary debuts of the late 20th century."

Michael Dorris Biography. His father, Jim Dorris, was part Modoc; his Irish and Swiss mother was Mary Besy Burkhardt Dorris. Dorris married novelist Louise Erdrich in 1981, and they were parents to six children, including an adopted son named Abel, who was diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome and died in 1991.