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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is an American author, writer 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 federally recognized tribe 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 and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Round House. She was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the National Book Festival in September 2015. She is a 2013 recipient of the Alex Awards. She was married to author Michael Dorris and the two collaborated on a number of works. The couple separated in 1995.
BornKaren Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954, Little Falls, Minnesota, US
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, poet
NationalityOjibwe, American
Alma materDartmouth College
GenreNative American literature, children's books
Literary movementPostmodernism, Native American Renaissance
Notable worksLove Medicine, Tracks, The Beet Queen, The Bingo Palace, The Round House
Notable awardsNational Book Award for Fiction
SpouseMichael Dorris (m. 1981, died 1997)
Children7

About Louise Erdrich

Children's Author Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, United States on June 7, 1954. She's 69 years old today.

She is a Native American author of children's books, poetry, and novels who won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012 for her novel The Round House. Tracks (novel), Jacklight (poems), and The Birchbark House (children's book) are among her other significant works.

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Louise Erdrich before becoming famous

Louise Erdrich was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1954 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Horse (馬).

Following her Bachelor's degree in English from Dartmouth, she got a Master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. Love Medicine, her first novel, was published in 1984.

Achievement of Louise Erdrich

The Plague of Doves, her novel, was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009.

Louise Erdrich's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She was born in the Minnesota town of Little Falls. She had three biological and three adopted children with her husband, Memoirist Michael Dorris.

Louise Erdrich on Social Media

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She won the National Book Award in 2012, defeating Novelist Junot Diaz.

Louise Erdrich Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Louise Erdrich updated on March 10 2023.