Louise Erdrich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Louise Erdrich

writer from the United States

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1954

Place of Birth: Little Falls, Minnesota, United States

Profession: writer, poet, children's writer, novelist, short story writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.
She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa).Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.
In 2009, her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Round House.
She was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the National Book Festival in September 2015.
She was married to author Michael Dorris and the two collaborated on a number of works.
Although, they divorced and later Dorris committed suicide. She is also the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature and the Native community in the Twin Cities.