Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. 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.

She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bur Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich’s The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction - at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.

One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. Review Source: We Should All Be Book Worms Genres: American Indians First Nations Metis Inuit Published by HarperCollins on September 24, 2013 Mykella Palmer is the Creative Coordinator at Teaching for Change.

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