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Karen Louise Erdrich (/ ˈ ɜːr d r ɪ k / ER-drik; born June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.
Jun 3, 2024 · Louise Erdrich, American author whose principal subject is the Ojibwa Indians in the northern Midwest. Her notable books included Love Medicine, The Plague of Doves, The Round House, LaRose, and The Night Watchman; the latter won a Pulitzer Prize. Learn more about Erdrich’s life and career.
In The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature.
Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota in 1954. As the daughter of a Chippewa Indian mother and a German-American father, Erdrich explores Native-American themes in her works, with major characters representing both sides of her heritage.
Mar 25, 2024 · From the start Louise Erdrich’s writing has had this quality, and her large body of work is a lodestar for the Native writers who have come after her, showing us how to write past America’s ideas and expectations about Indians into places both more tribally specific, and more human.
Nov 8, 2021 · Set in a haunted Minneapolis bookshop over the course of one very momentous year, The Sentence is an ambitious novel, featuring a sinister ghost, a country in tumult and Erdrich's own shifting...
Mar 4, 2020 · Louise Erdrich On Her Personal Connection To Native Peoples' 'Fight For Survival'. Erdrich's new novel, The Night Watchman, was inspired by her grandfather, who chaired the Turtle Mountain Band...
Feb 29, 2020 · Erdrich's new novel, set in the 1950s, follows a Native American tribe fighting for their rights as the U.S. Congress prepares to terminate their...
Nov 10, 2021 · Katy Waldman reviews Louise Erdrich’s new novel, “The Sentence,” which follows a fictional Ojibwe woman as the coronavirus pandemic explodes and racial-justice protests ignite.
Jun 11, 2021 · Louise Erdrich ’76 has won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her critically acclaimed novel The Night Watchman (Harper 2020). The awards were announced on June 11.
