“The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich will be next year’s One Book One Northwestern selection, Northwestern announced Monday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is about a tribal leader that stands up ...

Louise Erdrich, author of this year’s One Book One Northwestern selection “The Night Watchman,” discussed her novel’s inspirations at the 20th One Book One Northwestern keynote on Oct. 15. Moderated ...

Author Louise Erdrich speaks at Haskell Indian Nations University on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Erdrich discussed her latest book, "The Night Watchman." Award-winning novelist Louise Erdrich will be ...

“We have survived the flu epidemic of 1918… but at last we will be destroyed by a collection of tedious words.” This is a thought from Thomas Wazhashk, the titular watchman of Louise Erdrich’s novel, ...

No one can break your heart and fill it with light all in the same book — sometimes in the same paragraph — quite like Louise Erdrich. She does it again, and beautifully, in her new book, “The Night ...

Erdrich based the character on her grandfather, who, like Thomas, was a tribal leader of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, who, as the novel opens in the fall of 1953, are facing an existential ...

"The Night Watchman," Louise Erdrich's novel about the battle to stop the displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, is the 2021 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for ...

As a white, non-Native person in the US, I have been reading and watching films to educate myself better about Native history and culture in the US. I feel that it’s my responsibility to try to fill ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich (“The Night Watchman,” 2021) returns with a story close to her heart, “The Mighty Red.” Set in the author’s native North Dakota, the title refers to the ...