Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota. Her father was German-American and her mother Ojibwe of French descent, and she is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota. She studied at Dartmouth College and received a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1979.

Before her first novel she worked as a lifeguard, waitress, hospital aide and editor of a Boston Indian Council newspaper. Love Medicine (1984) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She owns Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, where she lives.

Books

• Love Medicine (1984)
• The Beet Queen (1986)
• Tracks (1988)
• The Bingo Palace (1994)
• The Antelope Wife (1998)
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001)
• The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003)
• The Plague of Doves
• The Round House
• LaRose
• The Night Watchman (2020)
• The Sentence

Awards

• National Book Critics Circle Award for Love Medicine, 1984
• National Book Award for The Round House, 2012
• National Book Critics Circle Award for LaRose, 2016
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Night Watchman, 2021

Books on Tori

Source: Wikipedia