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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.
Apr 19, 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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa).
Louise Erdrich has 133 books on Goodreads with 1279819 ratings. Louise Erdrich’s most popular book is The Round House.
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...
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