Louise, a woman with a fair complexion and shoulder-length black hair, smiles softly into the camera. She wears a black button-up shirt and rimless glasses. — Photo by Jenn Ackerman.

Louise Erdrich

She // Her // Hers

Writer, Bookseller, Artist, and Native Arts Advocate

Minneapolis, Minnesota

2022 Berresford Prize

Louise Erdrich is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Night Watchman. Her novel, The Round House, won the National Book Award for fiction, and her first novel, Love Medicine, as well as her novel LaRose, won The National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Those novels are concerned with love, with justice, and with the ongoing fight for sovereignty for Native American people. She is Anishinabe, and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Erdrich lives with her family in Minnesota, and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

This artist page was last updated on: 07.10.2024

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Photo of the outside of Birchbark Books store. Many books are on display behind the glass windows. Green plants and flowers are lined up under the windows, and a blue chair sits out front. A white mailbox with the words “Little Free Native Seed Library” hand-painted on the side stands up in the foreground. — Birchbark Books storefront.

Photo courtesy of Louise Erdrich.

Louise stands on the right with two women on her left who smile broadly at the camera. They are framed in front of shelves lined with many books. — Test test

Photo courtesy of the artist.