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Topic: Love Medicine
Author Louise Erdrich to read from “The Plague of Doves”
November 11, 2008 | 
The 2008 Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence at Austin Peay State University will read from her work this week.
Louise Erdrich, author of 12 novels, will read from her novel, “The Plague of Doves,” at 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 13 in Clement Auditorium. A reception and book signing will follow.
Erdrich began her appointment as the Acuff Chair on Aug. 25. She will remain as the Acuff Chair through Dec. 3.
In addition to novels, Erdrich has written volumes of poetry, children’s books and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel, “Love Medicine,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and “The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse” was a finalist for the National Book Award.
For more information, contact the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, (931) 221-7031.
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Louise Erdrich to speak at Austin Peay
By Debbie Boen | September 9, 2008 |
Renowned author Louise Erdrich will read from her works at the APSU Mass Communications Center on Wednesday, September 10, at 8 p.m. The event is free with book signing and reception to follow.
Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. She attended the Johns Hopkins creative writing program and received fellowships at the McDowell Colony and the Yaddo Colony.In her book, Tracks, the author puts us into the mind of several of the characters, living each of their parts in the adventure story from their viewpoint. «Read the rest of this article»
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