Question: Michael Dorris and John Cowper Powys, have which mutual  occupation?
Context: Weymouth Sands was written by John Cowper Powys in rural upper New York State and published in February 1934 in New York City by Simon and Schuster.  It was published in Britain as Jobber Skald in 1935 by John Lane.  "Weymouth Sands" was the third of John Cowper Powys's so-called Wessex novels, which include "Wolf Solent" (1929), "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), and "Maiden Castle" (1936).  Powys was an admirer of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex.  American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time".  The setting of this novel is the English seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset. Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages is a 1951 historical romance by John Cowper Powys.  Set in the Dark Ages during a week of autumn 499 AD, this novel is, in part, a bildungsroman, with the adventures of the eponymous protagonist Porius, heir to the throne of Edeyrnion, in North Wales, at its centre.  The novel draws from both Arthurian legend and Welsh history and mythology, with Myrddin (Merlin) as another major character.  The invasion of Wales by the Saxons and the rise of the new religion of Christianity are central themes.  Due to the demands of publishers and a paper shortage in Britain, Powys was forced to excise more than 500 pages from the 1951 version.  It wasn't until 2007 that the full novel, as Powys intended his "magnum opus" to be, was published both in Britain and America. John Cowper Powys ( ; 8 October 187217 June 1963) was a British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet.  Although Powys published a collection of poems in 1896 and his first novel in 1915, he did not gain success as a writer until he published the novel "Wolf Solent" in 1929.  He was influenced by many writers, but he has been particularly seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and "Wolf Solent", "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), along with "Weymouth Sands" (1934) and "Maiden Castle" (1936), are often referred to as his Wessex novels.  As with Hardy's novels, the landscape plays a major role in Powys's works, and an elemental philosophy is important in the lives of his characters.  In 1934 he published his important "Autobiography".  Powys was also a highly successful itinerant lecturer, first in England and then from 1905 until 1930 in the USA.  Many of Powys's novels were written in America and his early novels, and all his major novels, up to and including "Owen Glendower" (1940), as well as "Autobiography," were first published in the United States Llewelyn Powys (13 August 1884 – 2 December 1939) was a British novelist and essayist and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys. Michael Anthony Dorris (January 30, 1945 – April 10, 1997) was an American novelist and scholar who was the first Chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth.  His works include the memoir, "The Broken Cord" (1989) and the novel, "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" (1987).  He was married to author Louise Erdrich and the two frequently collaborated in their writing.  He committed suicide in 1997 while police were investigating allegations that he had abused his daughters. Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel by John Cowper Powys was first published in America in January 1941, and in the UK in February 1942.  Powys returned to Britain from the USA in 1934, with his lover Phyllis Playter, living first in Dorchester, where he began work on his novel "Maiden Castle".  However, in July, 1935 they moved to the village of Corwen, Denbighshire, North Wales, historically part of Edeirnion or Edeyrnion, an ancient commote of medieval Wales that was once part of the Kingdom of Powys; it was at Corwen that he completed "Maiden Castle" (1936).  This move to the land of his ancestors led Powys to write this, the first of two historical novels set in this region of Wales; the other was "" (1951).  "Owen", Powys's ninth novel, reflects "his increasing sense of what he thought of as his bardic heritage." John Cowper Powys's (1872–1963) "Autobiography", published in 1934, the year Powys returned to Britain from America, describes his first 60 years, and is considered one of his most important works.  Writer J. B. Priestley comments: "Even if Powys had never written any novels – and at least one of them, "A Glastonbury Romance" is a masterpiece – this one book alone would have proved him to be a writer of genius."  While he sets out to be frank about himself, and especially his sexual peculiarities and perversions, he largely excludes any substantial discussion of the women in his life.  It has become clear that the reason for this is because it was written while he was still married to Margaret Lyon though he was living in a permanent relationship with the American Phyllis Playter.  Morine Krissdotir, in "The Life of Powys", describes the first chapter of the "Autobiography" as "one of the most complex and beautifully sustained pieces of prose about early childhood", but notes that "there is something distinctly odd about it" because there is no mention of his mother, who "is never mentioned in the entire "Autobiography"."  Herbert Williams comments that the exclusion of most of the important women in Powys's life "makes "Autobiography", for all its power and candour, a curiously distorted account of himself". Maiden Castle by John Cowper Powys was first published in 1936 and is the last of Powys so-called Wessex novels, following "Wolf Solent" (1929), "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), "Weymouth Sands" (1934).  Powys was an admirer of Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex.  American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time".  "Maiden Castle" is set in Dorchester, Dorset Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which Powys intended to be a "rival" to Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge".  Glen Cavaliero describes Dorchester as "vividly present throughout the book as a symbol of the continuity of civilization.  The title alludes to the Iron Age, hill fort Maiden Castle that stands near to Dorchester. A Glastonbury Romance was written by John Cowper Powys in rural upstate New York and first published by Simon and Schuster in New York City in March 1932.  An English edition published by John Lane followed in 1933.  It is the second of Powys's (1873–1963) Wessex novels, along with "Wolf Solent" (1929), "Weymouth Sands" (1934) and "Maiden Castle" (1936).  Powys was an admirer of Thomas Hardy and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset parts of Hardy's mythical Wessex.  The first two chapters of "A Glastonbury Romance" takes place in Norfolk, where the late Canon William Crow's will is read, and the Crow family learn that his secretary-valet John Geard has inherited his wealth.  Also in Norfolk a romance begins between cousins John and Mary Crow.  But after an important scene at the ancient monument of Stonehenge the rest of the action takes place in or near the Somerset town of Glastonbury.  This is a few miles north of the village of Montacute, where Powys's father was a clergyman, and where Powys lived for much of his youth.  The action occurs over roughly a year.  The grail legends associated with the town of Glastonbury are of major importance in this novel. Wolf Solent is a novel by John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) that was written in rural upper New York State and published by Simon and Schuster in May 1929 in New York City.  The British edition, published by Jonathan Cape, appeared in July of 1929.  This, Powys's fourth novel, was his first literary success.  It is a "bildungsroman" in which the eponymous protagonist, a thirty-four-year-old history teacher, returns to his birthplace, where he discovers the inadequacy of his dualistic philosophy.  Wolf resembles John Cowper Powys in that an elemental philosophy is at the centre of his life and, because, like Powys, he hates science and modern inventions like cars and planes, and is attracted to slender, androgynous women.  "Wolf Solent" is the first of Powys's four Wessex novels.  Powys wrote both about the same region as Thomas Hardy and was a twentieth-century successor to the great nineteenth-century novelist.
Answer: novelist