Scope: Louise Erdrich is a Native American author whose stories are drawn from her own personal heritage. Her best-selling novels, The Beet Queen and Love Medicine, reveal the struggle of the Chippewa Indians of North Dakota. In 1984 Erdrich received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Love Medicine.

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Books of Louise Erdrich’s are listed in our on-line catalog under, "Erdrich, Louise," and under individual titles.

Books written by and about Louise Erdrich have the call number(s) 
PS 153.I52

Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

Owens, Louis. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

CRITICAL SOURCES 

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate but pages may be photocopied. These resources provide an overview or summary of the topic.

The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF PR 881.C69 2001 Contemporary Novelists 

REF PS 374.W6C66 Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers 

REF PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction 

REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th-Century Writers

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

• American Literature
• Literature-General

WEB SITES

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu

Phil Nel’s Literary Links 
http://www.ksu.edu/english/nelp/weblinks/literary/american.html

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Updated 02/08/2007