Born June 7 (one source says July 6), 1954, in Little Falls, MN; daughter of Ralph Louis (a teacher with the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and Rita Joanne (affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Affairs) Erdrich; married Michael Anthony Dorris (a writer and professor of Native American studies), October 10, 1981 (died, April 11, 1997); children: Reynold Abel (died, 1991), Jeffrey Sava, Madeline Hannah, Persia Andromeda, Pallas Antigone, Aza Marion. Education: Dartmouth College, B.A., 1976; Johns Hopkins University, M.A., 1979. Politics: Democrat. Religion: "Anti-religion." Avocational Interests: Quilting, running, drawing, "playing chess with daughters and losing, playing piano badly, speaking terrible French." Memberships: International Writers, PEN (member of executive board, 1985- 88), Authors Guild, Authors League of America. Addresses: Agent: Andrew Wylie Agency, 250 West 57th St., Ste. 2114, New York, NY 10107-2199.

NOVELS

• Love Medicine, Holt (New York, NY), 1984, expanded edition, 1993.
• The Beet Queen, Holt (New York, NY), 1986.
• Tracks, Harper (New York, NY), 1988.
• (With husband, Michael Dorris) The Crown of Columbus, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1991.
• The Bingo Palace, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1994.
• Tales of Burning Love, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996.
• The Antelope Wife, HarperFlamingo (New York, NY), 1998.
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.
• The Master Butchers Singing Club, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2003.
• Four Souls, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.
• The Painted Drum, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.
• The Plague of Doves, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2008.

• Jacklight, Holt (New York, NY), 1984.
• Baptism of Desire, Harper (New York, NY), 1989.
• Original Fire: New and Selected Poems, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2003.

• (And illustrator) The Birchbark House, Hyperion Books for Children (New York, NY), 1999.
• The Game of Silence, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.
• The Porcupine Year, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2008.

• Imagination (textbook), C.E. Merrill (New York, NY), 1980.
• Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris Interview with Kay Bonetti (sound recording), American Audio Prose Library, 1986.
• (Author of preface) Michael Dorris, The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Harper (New York, NY), 1989.
• (Author of preface) Desmond Hogan, A Link with the River, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1989.
• (With Allan Richard Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin) Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1994.
• The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner, Penguin (New York, NY), 1994.
• The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (memoir), HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.
• Grandmother's Pigeon (juvenile), illustrated by Jim LaMarche, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1996.
• The Range Eternal (juvenile), illustrated by Steve Johnson, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2002.
• Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, National Geographic (Washington, DC), 2003.

Author, with Michael Dorris, of Route Two, 1990. Author of short story, "The World's Greatest Fisherman"; contributor to anthologies, including Norton Anthology of Poetry; Best American Short Stories of 1981-83, 1983, and 1988; and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 1985 and 1987. Contributor of stories, poems, essays, and book reviews to periodicals, including New Yorker, New England Review, Chicago, American Indian Quarterly, Frontiers, Atlantic, Kenyon Review, North American Review, New York Times Book Review, Ms., Redbook (with her sister Heidi, under the joint pseudonym Heidi Louise), and Woman (with Michael Dorris, under the joint pseudonym Milou North).