The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
2001
Four Souls
2004
The Painted Drum
2005
Publication Order of Justice Trilogy Books
The Plague of Doves
2008
The Round House
2012
LaRose
2016
Publication Order of Birchbark House Books
The Birchbark House
1999
The Game of Silence
2005
The Porcupine Year
2008
Chickadee
2012
Makoons
2016
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Crown of Columbus (With: Michael Dorris)
1991
The Antelope Wife / Antelope Woman
1998
The Master Butchers Singing Club
2003
Shadow Tag
2010
Future Home of the Living God
2017
The Night Watchman
2020
The Sentence
2021
The Mighty Red
2024
I’m Hungry
2027
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Red Convertible: Collected and New Stories 1978-2008
2009
Python’s Kiss
2026
Publication Order of Children’s Books
Grandmother’s Pigeon
1996
The Range Eternal
2002
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
Jacklight
1984
Baptism of Desire
1989
Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
2003
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Route Two (With: Michael Dorris)
1990
The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year
1995
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
2003
About Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is an American novelist, poet and children’s author, born on 7 June 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, and an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota. Most of her fiction is set on and around a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. She won the National Book Award for “The Round House” in 2012 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “The Night Watchman” in 2021.
Erdrich was the eldest of seven children. Her parents both taught at a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and her maternal grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, served for many years as tribal chairman. She entered Dartmouth College in 1972 as part of the first class of women admitted there, and took a Master of Arts in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 1979.
Her short story “The World’s Greatest Fisherman” won the Nelson Algren competition in 1982 and became the first chapter of her debut novel, “Love Medicine” (1984), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Later novels including “The Beet Queen”, “Tracks” and “The Bingo Palace” return to the same families and the nearby town of Argus, using multiple narrators across several generations. “The Plague of Doves”, a Pulitzer finalist, “The Round House” and “LaRose” are often grouped as her Justice trilogy.
For younger readers she wrote and illustrated “The Birchbark House” (1999), a National Book Award finalist, and continued the story of an Ojibwe family in four further books. “The Game of Silence” and “Chickadee” both won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. She has also published poetry, beginning with “Jacklight” in 1984, and two works of non-fiction, “The Blue Jay’s Dance” and “Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country”.
“The Night Watchman” (2020) draws on her grandfather’s campaign against the federal termination bill of the 1950s. “The Sentence” (2021) is the story of a haunting at Birchbark Books, the independent Minneapolis bookshop Erdrich owns, set during the pandemic and the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd. She received the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2015.
Her most recent novel is “The Mighty Red” (2024). The story collection “Python’s Kiss”, illustrated by her daughter Aza Erdrich Abe, was published by Harper in March 2026, and a new novel, “I’m Hungry”, about a young Chippewa waitress and poet in 1970s North Dakota, is scheduled for April 2027.
