Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of American novelists. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She is the author of many novels, the first of which, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the last of which, The Round House, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. She lives in Minnesota.

'A perfect – and perfectly wonderful – novel.' Anne Tyler'Violent, passionate, surprising … ‘The Beet Queen’ imparts its freshness of vision like an electric shock.' Angela Carter'She is a writer of formidable strength and imagination, and she presents the fruits of both in a prose of flexible, haunting beauty.' Bernard Levin, Sunday Times'A remarkable and luminous novel.' New York Times