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Gumbel, B. (Reporter). 1991, April 29. <strong>Authors</strong> <strong>Michael</strong> <strong>Dorris</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Louise</strong> <strong>Erdrich</strong> <strong>Discuss</strong> <strong>Christopher</strong><br />
Columbus. [Television series episode]. NBC Today Show. Retrieved from<br />
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<strong>Authors</strong> <strong>Michael</strong> <strong>Dorris</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Louise</strong> <strong>Erdrich</strong> <strong>Discuss</strong> <strong>Christopher</strong> Columbus<br />
BRYANT GUMBEL: Writing is such a singular pursuit, that the thought of two successful authors<br />
combining on one work seems like a bad idea, even if they are married. Nonetheless, our next two guests<br />
have made it work. <strong>Michael</strong> <strong>Dorris</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Louise</strong> <strong>Erdrich</strong>, husb<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> wife, have co-authored The Crown<br />
of Columbus, a novel said to be anything, unlike anything they’ve done individually. You both have<br />
Native American roots. Given that, was it difficult for you to approach Columbus with any degree of<br />
objectivity, or wasn’t there a natural revulsion?<br />
LOUISE ERDRICH: It was difficult in the very beginning, <strong>and</strong> we thought of him one dimensionally as a<br />
villain, <strong>and</strong> indeed, you know, in the book, he is explained as the first slave trader in the New World.<br />
MICHAEL DORRIS: But he wound up being much more complicated.<br />
ERDRICH: He’s more complicated. He was a complicated figure.<br />
DORRIS: I mean, he was a person whose real tragedy was that he was rigid. When he expected to find<br />
one thing <strong>and</strong> he didn’t find it, he could never quite cope with it. He went to his grave insisting that this<br />
was Japan, <strong>and</strong> disappointed when in fact it was North America.<br />
GUMBEL: So is it fair to say you gave him a better reading than you thought you might?<br />
ERDRICH: A more complicated one. He had a very inquiring spirit <strong>and</strong> he was an interesting person<br />
who made up so much about himself <strong>and</strong> deliberately surrounded himself with ambiguity.<br />
GUMBEL: <strong>Louise</strong> <strong>Erdrich</strong>, <strong>Michael</strong> <strong>Dorris</strong>, take care, thank you, very much.<br />
DORRIS: Thank you.<br />
ERDRICH: Thank you.<br />
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