She attended Dartmouth College and in her junior year she published a poem in Ms. Magazine, and was awarded an American Academy of Poets Prize. Erdrich was awarded a fellowship to be part of John Hopkins University's writing program in 1979. She then worked as an editor of the Boston Indian Council newspaper, The Circle.

Louise had met Michael Dorris when he was teaching in the Native American Studies Department at Dartmouth and years later they reconnected. Then
Dorris left for a sabbatical in New Zealand and Erdrich for a writing residency. They corresponded and exchanged manuscripts, and they reunited the following year. Dorris returned to Dartmouth, and Erdrich came back as a writer-in-residence.

They were married in October 1981. During their marriage, Erdrich and Dorris, considered themselves as each other's greatest literary influences. They publicly said that they collaborated on every single piece of writing, every single word.
She and Dorris separated in 1995; Dorris committed suicide in March 1997. Erdrich now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her three youngest children.

Erdrich is the author of several novels including Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, Tracks, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wife. She collaborated and co-wrote novels with her husband Michael Dorris, She has continued to write novels on her own including The Painted Drum. She writes about her culture over a span of time. Erdrich's narrative technique ultimately accomplishes a holistic temporal view of the Anishinaabe culture in which present occurrences cannot be isolated from the past.

Many critics compare the character of Gerry in Love Medicine, and Nanapush in Tracks to the Trickster, who is by most accounts a people's champion, a joker/healer, a challenger to the gods. Another theme that cultural interpretations focus on is oral tradition.

She owns Birchbark Books, a bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and continues to write.

I absolutely HIGHLY RECOMMEND this writer's works. Wonderful. Her books are National Bestsellers for good reason.

Since Native Americans are of the Oral Tradition you might enjoy the following audio books format

Painted Drum, The

Game of Silence, The (Unabridged)

Four Souls / Tracks (two novels)

Antelope Wife, The

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