Abstract
The publication of Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich's 1991 novel The Crown of Columbus, coinciding with the quincentennial anniversary of Columbus's voyage, was a highly anticipated literary event. Purchased several years before its publication for 1.5 million dollars, on the basis of a five-page outline, the book had the added glamour of being written collaboratively by a husband-wife team of rising literary stars. Dorris had just won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction with The Broken Cord, an exploration of fetal alcohol syndrome and its effects on a Native American family, and Erdrich was well respected not only for her first novel, Love Medicine, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984, but also for her poetry collections and two subsequent novels.
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