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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.
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.
Nov 26, 2019 · Louise Erdrich (born June 7, 1954) is an American author and poet and member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Erdrich often explores themes and symbolism relating to her Native American heritage in her work, which encompasses both adult and children’s literature.
Biography. The eldest of seven children, Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota on July 6, 1954. She grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school. At an early age Erdrich was encouraged by her parents to write stories.
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. In an award-winning series of related novels and…
Author Biography: Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bur. Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books.
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 nation-to-nation treaties and land...
Biography. Louise Erdrich is the author of sixteen novels, volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her fiction has won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Once named one of People magazine's most beautiful people, Louise Erdrich is a Native American writer with a wide popular appeal. She is no literary lightweight, however, having drawn comparisons to such noted American authors as William Faulkner.
