Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

"Erdrich is a talented storyteller. She has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious, and convincingly human." -- New York Times Book Review on The Game of Silence "Readers who loved Omakayas and her family in The Birchbark House have ample reason to rejoice in this beautifully constructed sequel." -- Kirkus (starred review) on The Game of Silence "Readers will want to follow this family for many seasons to come." -- Publishers Weekly on The Birchbark House "Charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bursting with life." -- Kirkus Reviews on The Birchbark House "The struggle to survive provides the exciting action in this sequel to The Birchbark House (1999) and The Game of Silence (2005), which takes place in 1852. What is left unspoken is as powerful as the story told." -- Booklist (starred review) "The novel reinforces the strength and importance of family." -- KLIATT (starred review) "Charming and enlightening." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The events in this installment will both delight and appall readers." -- School Library Journal (starred review)