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Louise Erdrich?is an American?writer of novels,?poetry, and?children books?featuring?Native American?characters and settings. * Louise Erdrich (1954- ) 露易丝·厄德里齐 Minnesota, near the Turtle Mountain Chippewa reservation in North Dakota Exposed to the storytelling of her German-American father and of her maternal grandparents whom she visited on the reservation. 1972: began to explore her own Chippewa heritage when involved in an innovative Native-American Studies program. 1980: served as editor for The Circle, the newspaper of the Boston Indian Council; the experience with urban, mixed-blood Indians further validated her own confusion about her ethnic identity and stimulated her interest in writing about her Native American roots. Love Medicine One of the first works by a Native American woman to portray modern Indian life. It depicts several generations of three families whose members search for an identity that fuses their Native and European American roots. A complex Faulkneresque story told by seven narratives voices, won the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for the best fiction. *