Louise
Erdrich
[ID: Louise, a woman with a fair complexion and shoulder-length black hair, smiles softly into the camera. She wears a black button-up shirt and rimless glasses.]
Writer, Bookseller, Artist, and Native Arts Advocate
Minneapolis, MN
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Louise Erdrich is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Night Watchman. Her novel, The Round House, won the National Book Award for fiction, and her first novel, Love Medicine, as well as her novel LaRose, won The National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Those novels are concerned with love, with justice, and with the ongoing fight for sovereignty for Native American people. She is Anishinabe, and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Erdrich lives with her family in Minnesota, and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
Photo by Jenn Ackerman.