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The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

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Name: Louise Erdrich
Variant Name: Karen Louise Erdrich
Birth Date: June 16, 1954
Place of Birth: Little Falls, Minnesota, United States of America
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Native American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author

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Biography of Louise Erdrich
8778 words, approx. 29.3 pages
Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary Native American writers. She writes poetry and some of the most sophisticated fiction and nonfiction being produced in the United States; her novels, particularly, deserve to be read, discussed, an...
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Biography of Louise Erdrich
6513 words, approx. 21.7 pages
The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a successful contemporary Native American writer, Erdrich's fin...
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Biography of Louise Erdrich
6023 words, approx. 20.1 pages
The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a successful contemporary Native American writer, Erdrich's fin...
 


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The Nation
The beet queen. (book reviews)
11/01/1986: 1,453 words, approx. 5 pages
THE BEET QUEEN. By Louise Erdrich. Henry Holt and Company. 338 pp. $16.95. The Beet Queen is a Dickensian story, an angry comedy about abandonment and survival, pluck and luck (ambition and coincidence), common sense and pretension, and wise children and foolish...
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The Washington Post
Beets
07/10/2002: 505 words, approx. 2 pages
A look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles. The beets of my childhood were deep red in color and otherwise, forgettable. For a regularly scheduled side dish, mother boiled the beets for an hour or so. They were skinned...
 


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The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

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