Louise Erdrich es una reconocida autora estadounidense, famosa por su escritura de ficción que a menudo presenta setting y personajes de origen nativo americano. Es miembro inscrita de la nación Anishinaabe, también conocida como Chippewa, y tiene membresía en la Banda Turtle Mountain. La escritura de Erdrich es ampliamente reconocida, posicionándola como una de las escritoras nativas más significativas de la segunda ola de lo que el crítico Kenneth Lincoln ha llamado la Renacimiento Native American.
Nació en Little Falls, Minnesota, en 1954, y fue criada en su mayoría en Wahpeton, Dakota del Norte. Sus padres eran maestros en escuelas del Bureau of Indian Affairs. Tiene un origen étnico diverso, con su padre siendo de ascendencia alemana americana y su madre siendo mitad ojibwe y mitad francesa americana. Antes de convertirse en escritora, Erdrich desempeñó diversos trabajos, incluyendo trabajos agrícolas, servir mesas, cocinar a la orden, trabajos de salvavidas y trabajos de construcción. Asistió al programa de escritura creativa de la Universidad Johns Hopkins y recibió becas en el MacDowell Colony y el Yaddo Colony. Después de ser nombrada escritora residente en Dartmouth, se casó con el profesor Michael Dorris, y juntos criaron a varios hijos, algunos de ellos adoptados.
Erdrich es autora de numerosas novelas superventas y galardonadas, como "Love Medicine", "The Beet Queen", "Tracks", "The Bingo Palace", "The Antelope Wife", "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse", y "The Round House". También ha escrito dos colecciones de poesía, "Jacklight" y "Baptism of Desire". Su ficción ha sido honrada por el Círculo de Críticos Nacionales del Libro y Los Ángeles Times, y su trabajo ha sido traducido a catorce idiomas. Varios de sus cuentos cortos han sido seleccionados para los premios O. Henry y para su inclusión en las antologías anuales Best American Short Story.
Además de su escritura, Erdrich también es dueña de una librería independiente. Administra Birchbark Books en Minneapolis, que se especializa en literatura nativa americana y en la comunidad de las Ciudades Gemelas. La librería es una reflexión del compromiso de Erdrich de promover la cultura y la literatura nativa americana. La obra de Erdrich ha tenido un gran impacto en la literatura nativa americana, y sigue siendo una figura destacada en la literatura americana contemporánea.
Birchbark House Books
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The Birchbark House
1999
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The Game of Silence
2005
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The Porcupine Year
2008
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Chickadee
2012
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Makoons
2016
Love Medicine Books
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Love Medicine
1984
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The Beet Queen
1985
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Tracks
1988
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The Bingo Palace
1994
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Tales of Burning Love
1996
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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
2000
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Four Souls
2004
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The Painted Drum
2005
Novelas independientes
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The Crown of Columbus (With: Michael Dorris)
1991
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The Crown of Columbus
1991
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The Antelope Wife / Antelope Woman
1998
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
2003
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The Plague of Doves
2008
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Shadow Tag
2010
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The Round House
2012
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LaRose
2016
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Future Home of the Living God
2017
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The Night Watchman
2020
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The Sentence
2021
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The Mighty Red
2024
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
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The Years of My Birth
2011
Colecciones
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Jacklight
1984
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Baptism of Desire
1990
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Original Fire
2003
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The Red Convertible
2009
Libros de imágenes
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Grandmother's Pigeon
1996
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The Range Eternal
2002
Libros de no ficción
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Imagination
1982
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Route Two (With: Michael Dorris)
1990
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Route Two
1990
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The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
1995
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Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
2003
Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (By: Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Garrison Keillor, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodríguez, Patricia Hampl, Peter Hawkins, Frederick Buechner, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
1994
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Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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Listening for God, Vol. 2 (By: Anne Tyler, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, Gail Godwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathleen Norris, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Carol Bly, Andrew Dubus)
1996
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Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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Listening for God, Vol. 3 (With: Tillie Olsen, Wendell Berry, John Cheever, Mary Gordon, Tess Gallagher, Reynolds Price, Oscar Hijuelos, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
2000
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Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
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Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler, Allegra Goodman, James Baldwin, Kent Haruf, Sue Miller, Doris Betts, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Michael Malone, Alice Elliot Dark)
2002
Selected Shorts Books
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For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)
1993
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Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Stephen Colbert, Miranda July, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, Robert Sean Leonard, Symphony Space, Jerry Zaks, Julia Slavin, Harry Mathews, Thomas Meehan, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey)
1998
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Timeless Classics (By: Shirley Jackson, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, John Shea, Jack London, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Connell, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Charles Keating, Symphony Space, Marian Seldes, Isaiah Sheffer, Steven Gilborn)
2006
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Falling in Love (By: E. Nesbit, Padgett Powell, Maile Meloy, Rick Bass, Edna O'Brien, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Laurie Colwin, Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Jane Curtin, William Hurt, Symphony Space)
2007
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Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Pets! (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen)
2007
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Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)
2008
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A Touch of Magic (By: Ray Bradbury, T.C. Boyle, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Donald Barthelme, Daniel Gerroll, Symphony Space, Andrew Lam, Jerry Zaks)
2009
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The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space)
2009
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Whodunit? (With: Ed McBain, Dashiell Hammett, Shirley Jackson, John Shea, Nadine Gordimer, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Sean Leonard, C.S. Montanye, Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, Hattie Winston)
2009
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American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space)
2010
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New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space)
2011
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Poe! (By: Symphony Space)
2012
Literary Conversations Books
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Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
1969
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Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
1981
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Conversations with Graham Greene
1983
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Conversations with Eudora Welty
1985
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Conversations with Walker Percy
1985
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Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
1985
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Conversations with William Styron
1985
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Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1986
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Conversations with Lillian Hellman
1986
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Conversations with Tennessee Williams
1986
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Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
1986
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Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
1987
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Truman Capote: Conversations
1987
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Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
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Conversations with Peter Taylor
1987
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Conversations with Arthur Miller
1987
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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
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Conversations with Edward Albee
1988
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Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
1988
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Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988
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Conversations with Robert Graves
1989
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Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
1989
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Conversations with Shelby Foote
1989
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Conversations with Robertson Davies
1989
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Conversations with James Baldwin
1989
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Conversations with John Gardner
1990
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Conversations with Richard Wilbur
1990
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Conversations with Tom Wolfe
1990
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Conversations with Raymond Carver
1990
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Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
1990
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Conversations with Reynolds Price
1991
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Conversations with Bernard Malamud
1991
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Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
1991
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Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
1992
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Conversations With Thornton Wilder
1992
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Conversations with Robert Coles
1992
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Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
1992
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More Conversations with Walker Percy
1993
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Conversations with Richard Wright
1993
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Conversations with Paul Bowles
1993
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Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
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Conversations with Amiri Baraka
1994
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Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
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Conversations with Saul Bellow
1994
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Conversations with Henry Miller
1994
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Conversations with Ernest Gaines
1995
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Conversations with Ralph Ellison
1995
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Conversations with Chester Himes
1995
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Conversations with Susan Sontag
1995
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Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995
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Conversations with Derek Walcott
1996
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More Conversations with Eudora Welty
1996
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Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
1996
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Conversations with Pauline Kael
1996
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Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
1997
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Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
1997
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Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1997
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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
1998
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Conversations with Denise Levertov
1998
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Conversations With William Faulkner
1999
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Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
1999
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Conversations With John Fowles
1999
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Conversations with Salman Rushdie
2000
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Conversations with William S. Burroughs
2000
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Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
2000
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Conversations with Chaim Potok
2001
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Conversations with Richard Ford
2001
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Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
2001
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Conversations with Mary Gordon
2002
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Conversations with Jim Harrison
2002
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Conversations with Clarence Major
2002
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Conversations with Margaret Walker
2002
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Conversations with Erica Jong
2002
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Elie Wiesel: Conversations
2002
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Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
2003
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Conversations with Rita Dove
2003
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Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
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Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
2003
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Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
2003
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Conversations with Gloria Naylor
2004
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Conversations with Audre Lorde
2004
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Conversations with Ray Bradbury
2004
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Conversations With John le Carré
2004
84
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
2005
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Conversations with Don DeLillo
2005
86
Conversations with Gore Vidal
2005
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Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
2005
88
Conversations with Jack Kerouac
2005
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Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
2005
90
Conversations with Thomas McGuane
2006
91
Conversations with Larry Brown
2007
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Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
2007
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Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
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Conversations with Leon Forrest
2007
95
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
2008
Louise Erdrich Anthologies
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Points of View
1956
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New Woman, New Fiction
1990
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The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
1992
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Growing Up Native American
1993
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The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
1993
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The Best American Short Stories 1993
1993
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Touchwood of Ojibway Prose
1994
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith
1994
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The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories
1995
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Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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Mistresses of the Dark
1998
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Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
1999
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
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Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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Writers on Writing
2001
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Fourteenth Annual Collection
2001
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Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
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The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
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More Stories We Tell
2004
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Every Day Is a Good Day
2004
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
2007
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Secret Ingredients
2007
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The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
2007
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Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover