Karen Louise Erdrich is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Ojibway and Chippewa). She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
Genres: Children's Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
Series
Birchbark House
1. The Birchbark House (1999)
2. The Game of Silence (2005)
3. The Porcupine Year (2008)
4. Chickadee (2012)
5. Makoons (2016)
1. The Birchbark House (1999)
2. The Game of Silence (2005)
3. The Porcupine Year (2008)
4. Chickadee (2012)
5. Makoons (2016)
Novels
Love Medicine (1984)
The Beet Queen (1986)
Tracks (1988)
The Crown of Columbus (1991) (with Michael Dorris)
The Bingo Palace (1994)
Tales of Burning Love (1996)
The Antelope Wife (1997)
aka The Antelope Woman
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (1999)
The Master Butcher's Singing Club (2003)
Four Souls (2004)
The Painted Drum (2005)
The Plague of Doves (2008)
Shadow Tag (2010)
The Round House (2012)
LaRose (2016)
Future Home of the Living God (2017)
The Night Watchman (2020)
The Sentence (2021)
The Beet Queen (1986)
Tracks (1988)
The Crown of Columbus (1991) (with Michael Dorris)
The Bingo Palace (1994)
Tales of Burning Love (1996)
The Antelope Wife (1997)
aka The Antelope Woman
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (1999)
The Master Butcher's Singing Club (2003)
Four Souls (2004)
The Painted Drum (2005)
The Plague of Doves (2008)
Shadow Tag (2010)
The Round House (2012)
LaRose (2016)
Future Home of the Living God (2017)
The Night Watchman (2020)
The Sentence (2021)
Collections
Jacklight (poems) (1984)
Baptism of Desire (poems) (1989)
Original Fire (poems) (2003)
The Red Convertible (2009)
Baptism of Desire (poems) (1989)
Original Fire (poems) (2003)
The Red Convertible (2009)
Picture Books
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Imagination (1982)
Louise Erdrich, Interview (1987)
Route Two (1990) (with Michael Dorris)
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris (1994)
The Falcon (1994)
The Blue Jay's Dance (1995)
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (2003)
Louise Erdrich, Interview (1987)
Route Two (1990) (with Michael Dorris)
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris (1994)
The Falcon (1994)
The Blue Jay's Dance (1995)
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (2003)
Anthologies containing stories by Louise Erdrich
Short stories
Fleur (1986) |
Awards
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Louise Erdrich recommends

Gathering Home (1988)
Vicki Covington
"Vicki Covington has the courage to write with tenderness, the wit to keep her characters close to the heart. Gathering Home is... full of loveliness and restrained tension."

Here We Are in Paradise (1998)
Tony Earley
"Tony Earley does the practically impossible... these stories are both incredibly and effortlessly convincing."

Asymmetry (2018)
Lisa Halliday
"Asymmetry is a novel of deceptive lightness and a sort of melancholy joy. Lisa Halliday writes with tender laugh-aloud wit, but under her formidable, reckoning gaze a world of compelling characters emerges. She steps onto the literary stage with the energy of a debut novelist and the confidence of a mature writer."

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019)
(Dark Star Trilogy, book 1)
Marlon James
"This book begins like a fever dream and merges into world upon world of deadly fairy tales rich with political magic. Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a fabulous cascade of storytelling. Sink right in. I guarantee you will be swept downstream."

This Town Sleeps (2020)
Dennis E Staples
"With gentle wit, frank sensuality, and a keen eye for small town and reservation life, Dennis E. Staples debuts a tender, suspenseful, irresistible first novel!"

Winter Counts (2020)
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
"Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book. David Heska Wanbli Weiden has written the first of what I hope is a series of books about life on Rosebud Reservation. Virgil Wounded Horse, his nephew Nathan, and Marie Short Bear are more than characters; they brim with intrigue and authentic life."
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