Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, 1954) is an American author, poet, and children's book set in Native American characters and settings.

Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, is a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa).

The Plague of Doves, Jennifer's book, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009 and was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

In November 2012, she was voted National Book Award for Fiction for her book The Round House.

At the National Book Festival in September 2015, she was given the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

She was married to writer Michael Dorris and the two artists collaborated on a variety of projects.

Despite this, they divorced and later Dorris committed suicide. She is also the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature and the Native people of the Twin Cities.

Personal life

Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, on June 7, 1954. Rita (née Gourneau), a Chippewa woman (of half Ojibwe and half French blood), was the oldest of seven children born to Ralph Erdrich, a German-American, and Rita (née Gourneau). Both parents attended a boarding school in Wahon, North Dakota, which was sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Patrick Gourneau, Erdrich's maternal grandfather, served as tribal chairman for the federally recognised tribe of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians for many years. Although she was not raised in a reservation, she visited relatives there often. She was raised "with all the accepted truths" of Catholicism.

Erdrich was a child, but her father still paid her a penny for every story she wrote. Heidi also lives in Minnesota; she works under the name Heid E. Erdrich. Lise Erdrich, another sister, has published children's books and collections of fiction and essays.

Erdrich attended Dartmouth College from 1972 to 1976. She was one of the first cohort of women accepted to the college and earned an A.B. In English, as above. Erdrich met Michael Dorris, an anthropologist, writer, and then-director of the new Native American Studies program in her first year. During Dorris' class, she started to investigate her own ancestry, which inspired her to use it for her literary work, including poems, short stories, and novels. During those years, she worked as a lifeguard, waitress, filmmaker for films, and as an editor for Boston's Council newspaper The Circle.

Erdrich graduated in 1978 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, with a Master of Arts degree. In 1979, she earned her Master of Arts in the Writing Seminars. Erdrich also published some of the poems and stories she wrote when she was in M.A. The program is an acronym that stands for "British Intuitive University" She returned to Dartmouth as a writer-in-residence.

Erdrich remained in touch with Michael Dorris after graduating from Dartmouth. He was impressed with her art at one of her poetry readings and expressed an interest in working with her and expressed an interest in working with her. Despite Erdrich and Dorris' collaboration on short stories, the two were on two ends of the world, Erdrich in Boston and Dorris in New Zealand for field study.

The pair's literary friendship led to a passionate friendship. They married in 1981 and raised three children together as a family (Reynold Abel, Madeline, and Sava) and three biological children (Persia, Pallas, and Aza Marion). Reynold Abel was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and in 1991, he was killed after being struck by a car at age 23. In 1995, their son Sava accusing Dorris of child violence; in 1997, his adopted daughter Madeline was reportedly sexually assaulted by Dorris, who apparently did not do anything to avoid the abuse;

Dorris and Erdrich split in 1995, and Dorris died of suicide in 1997. Erdich and his adopted children Sava and Madeline were excluded from his will, according to the author.

Erdrich, a Native American man Erdrich, refuses to identify publicly in 2001. In her 2003 non-fiction book, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, she discusses her pregnancy with Azure and Azure's father. She uses the word "Tobasonakwut" to describe him. He is described as a traditional healer and mentor, who is eighteen years old and married. Tobasonakwut Kinew, a writer who died in 2012, is described as Erdrich's partner and the father of Azure in a number of publications.

Erdrich replied when asked if writing is a lonely life for her, "Strangely, I think it is." I am surrounded by a slew of families and friends, but I am still struggling with the writing. And that is just fine. Erdrich lives in Minneapolis.

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Awards

• 1975 American Academy of Poets Prize
• 1980 MacDowell Fellowship
• 1983 Pushcart Prize in Poetry
• 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, for Love Medicine
• 1984 Sue Kaufman Prize for Best First Novel, for Love Medicine
• 1984 Virginia McCormick Scully Literary Award d for Best Book of 1984 dealing with Indians or Chicanos
• 1985 Los Angeles Times book PrizeJoy Harjo
• 1985 Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts
• 1987 O. Henry Award, for the short story "Fleur" (published in Esquire, August 1986)
• 1999 World Fantasy Award, for The Antelope Wife
• 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
• 2005 Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota
• 2006 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, for the children's book "The Game of Silence"
• 2007 Honorary Doctorate from the University of North Dakota; refused by Erdrich because of her opposition to the university's North Dakota Fighting Sioux mascot
• 2009 Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters) from Dartmouth College
• 2009 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement
• 2009 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, for Plague of Doves
• 2012 National Book Award for Fiction for The Round House
• 2013 Rough Rider Award
• 2013 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Chickadee
• 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
• 2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
• 2015 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
• 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, for LaRose
• 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Night Watchman