About the Author
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich's The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction, her novels Love Medicine and LaRose both received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and her novel, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.