Louise Erdrich
Novelist, Author
1954 –
Who is Louise Erdrich?
Karen Louise Erdrich, known as Louise Erdrich, is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a band of the Anishinaabe.
Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. In 2009, her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Round House.
She is also the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature and the Native community in the Twin Cities.
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- Born
- Jun 7, 1954
Little Falls - Also known as
- Karen Louise Erdrich
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Michael Dorris
(1981/10 - 1997)
- Michael Dorris
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Dartmouth College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lived in
- Minnesota
- North Dakota
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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