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About the Author

Louise Erdrich lives with her family in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore. Ms. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and this story—which will, in the end, span one hundred years in the life of an Ojibwe woman—was inspired when Ms. Erdrich and her mother, Rita Gourneau Erdrich, were researching their own family history. Chickadee begins a new part of the story that started with The Birchbark House, a National Book Award finalist; The Game of Silence, winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; and the acclaimed The Porcupine Year.

Ms. Erdrich is also the bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels for adults, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves and National Book Award finalist The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. She is also the author of the picture book Grandmother's Pigeon, illustrated by Jim LaMarche.

Praise for The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse…

“A deeply affecting narrative . . . by turns comical and elegiac, farcical, and tragic.”
-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

“[Erdrich’s] best so far…told with such cleverness and compassion that the effect is nothing less than dazzling.”
-USA Today

“Spellbinding…profoundly moving.”
-Elle

"Funny, engrossing and revelatory."
-Wall Street Journal

"You will be dazzled by the poetry of her language and her lighteninglike illuminations of the human condition."
-Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine

"A magnificent storyteller … delivering musical prose charged by powerful metaphors."
-St. Paul Star-Tribune

"Stunning …a moving meditation … infused with mystery and wonder."
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Bold and imaginative."
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel