The Crown of Columbus

novel by Erdrich and Dorris

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discussed in biography of Erdrich

  • Louise Erdrich
    In Louise Erdrich: Education and marriage

    …of her early novels, notably The Crown of Columbus (1991). (Dorris’s own works include the award-winning 1989 nonfiction book The Broken Cord: A Family’s Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.) Erdrich adopted Dorris’s children and had three more children with him. In 1991 their eldest child, Abel, was killed in…

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