Louise Erdrich

Books on prize lists

• The Night Watchman

  Written in English

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  Pulitzer 2021 · ★ Winner

  The Night Watchman

  The Night Watchman

  Louise Erdrich · 66 when first published

  Novel · 464 pages · Historical, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1953 a Chippewa council member who guards a factory at night on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Reservation fights a bill in Congress that would end his tribe's treaty rights to its land.

• The Plague of Doves

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  Pulitzer 2009 · Finalist

  The Plague of Doves

  The Plague of Doves

  Louise Erdrich · 54 when first published

  Novel · 320 pages · Historical, Crime, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1911 a farm family is murdered near Pluto, North Dakota, and a white posse lynches three Ojibwe men for the crime; decades later, the granddaughter of a man who escaped the hanging grows up on the nearby reservation.