In the contemporary novel LaRose by Louise Erdrich, the accidental killing of a young boy, Dusty Ravich, by five-year-old LaRose Iron's father brings about an intense effort by LaRose to heal the two families. This 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, set in North Dakota on an Ojibwa reservation, explores important themes such as tradition, history, atonement, and good versus evil.
Once named one of People magazine's most beautiful people, Louise Erdrich (born 1954) is a Native American writer with a wide popular appeal. She is no literary lightweight, however, having drawn comp...
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Like William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County, American writer Louise Erdrich has created her own mythical landscape in and around Argus, a fictional Red River Valley reservation town on the Minn...
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The families Louise Erdrich first introduced in a short story, "The World's Greatest Fishermen" (1982) -- the Kashpaws, the Lamartines, the Pillagers, and the Morrisseys -- have also appeared in four ...
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Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary Native American writers. She writes poetry and some of the most sophisticated fiction and nonfiction being produced in the United States; her n...
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The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a success...
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Biography EssayThe writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primari...
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich