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Erdrich, Karen Louise was born on June 7, 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of Ralph Louis and Rita Joanne Erdrich.
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The Game of Silence (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2005-04-26)
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Baptism of Desire by Louise Erdrich (1989-12-03)
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The Bingo Palace.
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The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich (1986-09-01)
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Makoons (Birchbark House)
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In the sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continues her award-winning Birchbark House series with the story of an Ojibwe family in nineteenth-century America. Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear, Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their family to the Great Plains of Dakota Territory. There they must learn to become buffalo hunters and once again help their people make a home in a new land. But Makoons has had a vision that foretells great challenges—challenges that his family may not be able to overcome. Based on Louise Erdrich’s own family history, this fifth book in the series features black-and-white interior illustrations, a note from the author about her research, as well as a map and glossary of Ojibwe terms.
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BY Erdrich, Louise ( Author ) { Tales of Burning Love (P.S.) By Erdrich, Louise ( Author ) Apr - 23- 2013 ( Paperback ) }
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The Crown of Columbus
(Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, husband and wife, have...)
Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, husband and wife, have each written bestselling and highly acclaimed books. Now in their first fully collaborative literary work, they have created a cast of indelible characters and a page turner of a story filled with provocative ideas, humor suspense, and passion. A novel of discoveries, The Crown of Columbus chronicles the adventures of a pair of mismatched lovers and their quest for the truth about Christopher Columbus and themselves. Vivian Two star is a pragmatic, divorced forty year-old anthropologist with an exasperating teenage son, afierce grandmother and a baby on the way. Her lover, Roger Williams, a scholar and poet, is her polar opposite. Their relationship is plagued by the clashes of two people who disagree on every point except their attraction to each other. When Vivian uncovers Christopher Columbus's lost diary and a reference to "the greatest treasure of Europe," she and Roger are drawn into a journey to the Caribbean that threatens and finally changes their lives. The Crown of Columbus is a contemporary love story; a rollicking tale of adventure, a tender, funny examination of parenthood and a novel of history recovery and new beginnings. MICHAEL DORRIS is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Broken Cord, winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and the Heartland Prize, as well as the nationally bestselling novel a Yellow Raft in Blue Water. LOUISE ERDRICH's critically acclaimed Love Medicine won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1984. Her work also includes the poetry collections jacklight and Baptism of Desire as well as The Beet Queen and Tracks, both New York Times bestselling novels.
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Baptism of Desire: Poems
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Baptism of Desire : Poems by Louise Erdrich. Perennial Library,1991
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Love Medicine
(The first book in Louise Erdrich's Native American series...)
The first book in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, which also includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace, Love Medicine tells the story of two families--the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.Now resequenced by the author with the addition of never-before-published chapters, this is a publishing event equivalent to the presentation of a new and definitive text. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, Love Medicine springs to raging life: a multigenerational portrait of new truths and secrets whose time has come, of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power that is Love Medicine. Discover the writer whom Philp Roth called "the most interesting new American novelist to have appeared in years" all over again.
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Jacklight
( The poems of Louise Erdrich reflect what it is to be a ...)
The poems of Louise Erdrich reflect what it is to be a woman, a Midwesterner and a native American. She presents that region and those people without sentimentality, and although drawing from a deep well she does not ignore the ordinary. Her novels include " Love Medicine" .
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The Game of Silence (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2006-06-13)
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Chickadee (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2012-08-21)
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By Louise Erdrich - Tales of Burning Love: A Novel (Reprint) (2013-05-08) Paperback
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The Beet Queen: A Novel
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From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes this vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy, and unstinting love. On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, Mary seeks refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband, while Karl gets back on the train. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks his sister’s gift for survival; Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin; and the half-Native American Celestine James, who will become Mary’s best friend. Theirs is a story grounded in the tenacity of relationships, the extraordinary magic of natural events, and the unending mystery of the human condition. Bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich dazzles in this vibrant and heartfelt tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love that explores with empathy, humor, and power the eternal mystery of the human condition. “A perfect—and perfectly wonderful—novel.” — Anne Tyler
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Tales of Burning Love TALES OF BURNING LOVE By Erdrich, Louise ( Author )Mar-14-1997 Paperback
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Tracks
( From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author L...)
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes an arresting, lyrical novel set in North Dakota when Native Americans were fighting to keep their lands. Set in North Dakota at a time in the past century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink of their endurance—yet their pride and humor prohibit surrender. The reader will experience shock and pleasure in encountering characters that are compelling and rich in their vigor, clarity, and indomitable vitality. “The author captures the passions, fears, myths, and doom of a living people, and she does so with an ease that leaves the reader breathless.” —The New Yorker
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Baptism of Desire: Poems by Louise Erdrich (1990-12-07)
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THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE BY Erdrich, Louise (Author) Perfection Learning (publisher) Hardcover
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Tales Burning Love
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The Porcupine Year (Birchbark House)
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Omakayas was a dreamer who did not yet know her limits. When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey in search of a new home. Pushed to the brink of survival, Omakayas continues to learn from the land and the spirits around her, and she discovers that no matter where she is, or how she is living, she has the one thing she needs to carry her through.
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Baptism of Desire: Poems by Erdrich, Louise(December 7, 1990) Paperback
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The Game of Silence (Birchbark House)
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Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas′s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.
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The Bingo Palace
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THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE (TURTLEBACK SCHOOL & LIBRARY) BY Erdrich, Louise (Author) Turtleback Books (publisher) Hardcover
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Erdrich, Louise ( Author )(The Crown of Columbus ) Paperback
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Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (2004-07-19)
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The Bingo Palace: A Novel
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From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes this novel of spiritual death, lyrical prose, and wild hope: a striking, luminous chapter in Erdrich’s Ojibwe saga. At the crossroads of his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation. There, he falls in love for the very first time—with the beautiful Shawnee Ray, who’s already considering a marriage proposal from Lipsha’s wealthy entrepreneurial boss, Lyman Lamartine. But when all efforts to win Shawnee’s affections go hopelessly awry, Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma—on sacred ground where a federally sanctioned bingo palace is slated for construction. Louise Erdrich’s luminous novel The Bingo Palace is a tale of spiritual death and reawakening; of money, desperate love, and wild hope; and of the enduring power of cherished dreams. “Wonderful...hopeful, wrenching, funny, sexy, intense, and penetratingly true.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The Birchbark House
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Tales of Burning Love: A Novel
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Louise Erdrich’s Tales of Burning Love is a darkly humorous novel of wild romance and heartbreak set against a raging North Dakota blizzard as five Native American women bond over their shared connection to one man. Stranded in the storm just outside of Fargo, Jack Mauser’s former wives pass the night by remembering how each came to love, marry, and ultimately move beyond Jack. Painful and comic by turns, the women’s tales bind them together. National Book Award-winning and bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s characteristic powers of observation and poetic prose combine in a tale that is another tour-de-force from one of America’s most formidable writers. This edition of Tales of Burning Love includes a P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.
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The Beet Queen: A Novel by Louise Erdrich (2006-08-22)
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The Porcupine Year (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2010-09-14)
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Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition (P.S.)
( Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Lo...)
Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine—the first novel by bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich—is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life. Filled with humor, magic, injustice and betrayal, Erdrich blends family love and loyalty in a stunning work of dramatic fiction
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The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (2002-05-13)
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Chickadee (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2013-08-27)
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The Birchbark HouseTHE BIRCHBARK HOUSE by Erdrich, Louise (Author) on Jun-01-2002 Hardcover
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Jacklight - Poems
(Jacklight : Poems by Louise Erdrich. Henry Holt and Co.,1984)
Jacklight : Poems by Louise Erdrich. Henry Holt and Co.,1984
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The Birchbark House (Turtleback School & Library)THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE (TURTLEBACK SCHOOL & LIBRARY) by Erdrich, Louise (Author) on Jun-03-2002 Hardcover
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Baptism of Desire: Poems
( A second book of poetry by Louise Erdich, author of the...)
A second book of poetry by Louise Erdich, author of the bestselling and award winning novels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen and Tracks. Baptisim by blood, water, or desire is necessary for salvation in Roman Catholic tradition, and baptism of desire in the term used for the leap of trust by which a sincere believer can experience spiritual regeneration.Louise Erdrich's poems are acts of redemption. Everywhere evident is Erdrich's unique capacity for finding the perfect word, the fresh, yet absolutely right, metaphor that makes her wrk both profound and accessable.
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Chickadee (Birchbark House)
( Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction...)
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Chickadee is the first novel of a new arc in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have done everything together since they were born—until the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated. Desperate to reunite, both Chickadee and his family must travel across new territories, forge unlikely friendships, and experience both unexpected moments of unbearable heartache as well as pure happiness. And through it all, Chickadee has the strength of his namesake, the chickadee, to carry him on. Chickadee continues the story of one Ojibwe family's journey through one hundred years in America. School Library Journal, in a starred review, proclaimed, "Readers will be more than happy to welcome little Chickadee into their hearts." The paperback edition includes additional material, such as an interview with the author and activities.
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Karen Louise Erdrich
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Karen Louise Erdrich, American Fiction writer, poet. Johns Hopkins University teaching fellow, 1979; Macdowell Colony fellow, 1980; Yaddo Colony fellow, 1981; visiting fellow Dartmouth College, 1981; Guggenheim fellow, 1985-1986; recipient numerous awards for professional excellence including Nelson Algren award, 1982, Pushcart prize, 1983, National Magazine Fiction award, 1983, 87, First prize O. Henry awards, 1987.
Education
Bachelor, Dartmouth College, 1976; Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1979.
Career
Visiting poet, teacher, North Dakota State Arts Council, 1977-1978; teacher writing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1978-1979; communications director, editor, Circle-Boston Indian Council, 1979-1980; textbook writer, Charles Merrill Company, 1980.
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Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition (P.S.)
( Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Lo...)
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Tales of Burning Love: A Novel
( Louise Erdrich’s Tales of Burning Love is a darkly humo...)
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Love Medicine
(The first book in Louise Erdrich's Native American series...)
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Chickadee (Birchbark House)
( Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction...)
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The Bingo Palace: A Novel
( From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Lo...)
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Tracks
( From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author L...)
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Makoons (Birchbark House)
( In the sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erd...)
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The Beet Queen: A Novel
( From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author L...)
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Baptism of Desire: Poems
( A second book of poetry by Louise Erdich, author of the...)
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The Game of Silence (Birchbark House)
( Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first...)
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The Crown of Columbus
(Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, husband and wife, have...)
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Jacklight
( The poems of Louise Erdrich reflect what it is to be a ...)
- Erdrich, Louise ( Author )(The Crown of Columbus ) Paperback
- BY Erdrich, Louise ( Author ) { Tales of Burning Love (P.S.) By Erdrich, Louise ( Author ) Apr - 23- 2013 ( Paperback ) }
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The Porcupine Year (Birchbark House)
( Omakayas was a dreamer who did not yet know her limits...)
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Baptism of Desire: Poems
(Baptism of Desire : Poems by Louise Erdrich. Perennial Li...)
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Jacklight - Poems
(Jacklight : Poems by Louise Erdrich. Henry Holt and Co.,1984)
- Louise Erdrich four volume set: Tracks, Love Medicine, The Bingo Palace, The Master Butchers Singing Club
- The Game of Silence (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2005-04-26)
- Baptism of Desire by Louise Erdrich (1989-12-03)
- The Bingo Palace.
- The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich (1986-09-01)
- The Game of Silence (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2006-06-13)
- Chickadee (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2012-08-21)
- By Louise Erdrich - Tales of Burning Love: A Novel (Reprint) (2013-05-08) Paperback
- Tales of Burning Love TALES OF BURNING LOVE By Erdrich, Louise ( Author )Mar-14-1997 Paperback
- Baptism of Desire: Poems by Louise Erdrich (1990-12-07)
- THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE BY Erdrich, Louise (Author) Perfection Learning (publisher) Hardcover
- Tales Burning Love
- Baptism of Desire: Poems by Erdrich, Louise(December 7, 1990) Paperback
- The Bingo Palace
- THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE (TURTLEBACK SCHOOL & LIBRARY) BY Erdrich, Louise (Author) Turtleback Books (publisher) Hardcover
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (2004-07-19)
- The Birchbark House
- The Beet Queen: A Novel by Louise Erdrich (2006-08-22)
- The Porcupine Year (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2010-09-14)
- The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (2002-05-13)
- Chickadee (Birchbark House) by Louise Erdrich (2013-08-27)
- The Birchbark HouseTHE BIRCHBARK HOUSE by Erdrich, Louise (Author) on Jun-01-2002 Hardcover
- The Birchbark House (Turtleback School & Library)THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE (TURTLEBACK SCHOOL & LIBRARY) by Erdrich, Louise (Author) on Jun-03-2002 Hardcover
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Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition (P.S.)
Membership
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (Executive Board 1985-1990), American Academy Arts and Letters, Authors Guild, Western Literature Association.
Connections
Married Michael Anthony Dorris, October 10, 1981 (deceased April 1997). Children: Abel (deceased), Sava, Madeline, Persia, Pallas, Aza.
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Johns Hopkins University teaching fellow, 1979. Macdowell Colony fellow, 1980. Yaddo Colony fellow, 1981. Visiting fellow Dartmouth College, 1981. Guggenheim fellow, 1985-1986. Recipient numerous awards for professional excellence including Nelson Algren award, 1982, Pushcart prize, 1983, National Magazine Fiction award, 1983, 87, First prize O. Henry awards, 1987.Johns Hopkins University teaching fellow, 1979. Macdowell Colony fellow, 1980. Yaddo Colony fellow, 1981.
Visiting fellow Dartmouth College, 1981. Guggenheim fellow, 1985-1986. Recipient numerous awards for professional excellence including Nelson Algren award, 1982, Pushcart prize, 1983, National Magazine Fiction award, 1983, 87, First prize O. Henry awards, 1987.