Dorris
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
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Examples
Dorris Berlin, of Bethesda, died on Dec. 21. Beloved wife of the late N. Paul Berlin.
During her freshman year at the college, Erdrich met her future husband and collaborator, Michael Dorris; an anthropologist, writer and then-director of the new Native American Studies program.
Erdrich married Dorris in 1981 and they raised three adopted children and three biological children until their separation in 1995 and Dorris' suicide in 1997.
Erdrich remained in contact with Dorris.
Anyone inter ested should contact Dorris at 233-4351 before June 24.
As a writer himself, Dorris published the best-selling novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987) and in 1989 received the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Broken Cord: A Family’s Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.