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Louise Erdrich

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Karen Louise Erdrich (born June 7, 1954) is a Native Americans in the United States|Native American (Ojibwa) author of novels, poetry and children's books.



Background



Erdrich is the daughter of an Ojibwa Indian mother and a German-American father, and her work is often focused on Native American themes. The eldest of seven children, she was born in Little Falls, Minnesota and grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 1976, and earned her Master of Arts degree in writing from John Hopkins University in 1979.

From 1981 until his suicide in 1997, she was married to the author Michael Dorris. The couple had six children, three of them adopted. Dorris had adopted three children when he was single; Erdrich also adopted them and the couple had three more children together. In 1991, their oldest child was killed in a car accident. Additional family problems put a strain on the marriage and the two separated after fifteen years of marriage.

She is the 1987 O. Henry Award winner for her short story "Fleur" published in Esquire Magazine in August of 1986. Erdrich has also won the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, the Western Literary Association Award, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several of her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories series. Erdrich's short fiction has also appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and Paris Review.



Novels


  • Jacklight, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984

  • The Painted Drum

  • Love Medicine, Holt, 1984, (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award)

  • The Beet Queen, Holt, 1986

  • Tracks: a novel, NY: Henry Holt, 1988

  • Baptism of desire: poems, NY: Harper & Row, 1989

  • Route Two, Lord John Press, 1990

  • The Crown of Columbus, 1991, (with her late husband, Michael Dorris)

  • The Bingo Palace, NY: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994.

  • Tales of Burning Love

  • The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • The Master Butchers Singing Club

  • Four Souls

  • The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year, HarperCollins, 1995

  • The Antelope Wife (winner of the 1999 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel|World Fantasy Award)

  • The Birchbark House, NY: Hyperion Books for Children, 1999

  • The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, NY: HarperCollins, 2001

  • The Master Butcher's Singing Club: A Novel, NY: HarperCollins, 2003

Poetry


  • Baptism of Desire

  • Jacklight

External links


  • http://louiseerdrichbooks.com Louise Erdrich Official Web Page

  • http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/erdrich.htm Brief Louise Erdrich biography

  • http://www.geocities.com/tonnelso/ Louise Erdrich fan page



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