Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich (full name: Karen Louise Erdrich) was born on 7 June 1954 and grew up in the US, Minnesota, Little Falls. This American author often writes about Objibwa Indians living in northern Midwest regions in most of her literary works.

During her childhood, Louise Erdrich was greatly influenced by her American German dad and half-Ojibwa mom, who was a teacher at an Indian Affairs school. Louise later attended John Hopkins University (1979) and Dartmouth College (1976). At Dartmouth, Louise met the anthropologist and writer Michale Dorris, with whom she later married and collaborated in lots of her written novels, including The Columbus Crown (published in 1991).

Her children's books and novels shed light on Native Americans by including lots of Native American settings and characters that suffer from underrepresentation in lots of literature and media. As a daughter of a German father and Indian mom, she explores German, Native American, Scandinavian, and Polish themes quite often.

Aside from some surface issues about Native Americans, her works also break down existential questions of life meaning and identity. The author counts on her own experiences with heritage comprehension and converts them into stories, creating immersive tales that resonate with all readers that come from Native American origins.

Born: 1954

Notable works: The Round House, Love Medicine, The Sentence