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Louise Erdrich

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Love Medicine Summary

When Louise Erdrich and her husband, Michael Dorris, first sent Love Medicine to publishers, they received nothing but polite rejections. Finally, Dorris decided to promote the book himself and was successful. Holt published the book in 1983, and it became an immediate best seller. Critics applaud Erdrich's wit, tenderness, and powerful style of writing. They particularly like the manner in which Erdrich creates the Native American voice through the form of a traditional Chippewa...

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Love Medicine

4,119 words, approx. 14 pages

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich belongs to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, in 1954 and raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota, a region near ... Read more

Louise Erdrich Biographies (6)

Louise Erdrich

2,021 words, approx. 7 pages

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... Read more

Louise Erdrich

5,792 words, approx. 20 pages

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... Read more

Louise Erdrich

4,392 words, approx. 15 pages

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 ... Read more

Louise Erdrich

8,776 words, approx. 30 pages

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... Read more

Louise Erdrich

6,008 words, approx. 21 pages

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... Read more

Louise Erdrich

6,457 words, approx. 22 pages

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... Read more