Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novels include The Night Watchman, which won the Pulitzer Prize, The Round House, which won the National Book Award for Fiction, Love Medicine, and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent book is The Sentence. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.  A ghost lives in her creaky old house.