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Common Read | Strength, Resilence, and Community: The Night Watchman

Overview

The Power of Louise Erdrich's Books
Indian Country Today // 10.28.21 // 14 min.


Louise Erdrich: The Night Watchman
AWP Writer // 3.24.20 // 70 min.

Academic Publications


 

Biography

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Louise Erdrich
"Louise is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house." -- Publisher