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VJ Books Presents Author Louise Erdrich!

Louise-Erdich Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

Louise Erdrich Book List and Awards
Her blog: http://birchbarkbooks.com/blog
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The Sentence
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The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Future Home of the Living God
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Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich Bibliography


Novels

  • Love Medicine - 1984
  • The Beet Queen - 1986
  • Tracks - 1988
  • The Crown of Columbus - 1991 (coauthored with Michael Dorris)
  • The Bingo Palace - 1994
  • Tales of Burning Love - 1997
  • The Antelope Wife - 1998
  • The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - 2001
  • The Master Butchers Singing Club - 2003
  • Four Souls - 2004
  • The Painted Drum - 2005
  • The Plague of Doves - 2008
  • Shadow Tag - 2010
  • The Round House - 2016
  • LaRose - May 2016
  • Future Home of the Living God - November 2017
  • The Sentence - 2021

Story Collections

  • The Red Convertible: Collected and New Stories 1978-2008 - 2009

Children's Literature

  • Grandmother's Pigeon - 1996
  • The Birchbark House - 1999
  • The Range Eternal - 2002
  • The Game of Silence - 2005
  • The Porcupine Year - 2008
  • Chickadee - 2012

Poetry

  • Jacklight - 1984
  • Baptism of Desire - 1989
  • Original Fire: Selected and New Poems - 2003

Non-Fiction

  • Route Two - 1990 (coauthored with Michael Dorris)
  • The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birthyear - 1995
  • Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country - 2003

As editor or contributor

  • The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris - 1989 (Foreword)
  • The Best American Short Stories 1993 - 1993 (Editor, with Katrina Kenison)

Louise Erdich Awards

  • 1983 Pushcart Prize in Poetry
  • 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, for Love Medicine
  • 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 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, for Plague of Doves
  • 2012 National Book Award for Fiction for The Round House
  • 2013 Rough Rider Award
  • 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

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