Louise Erdrich is the author of fourteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich's first novel, The Plague of Doves, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. The second, The Round House, won The National Book Award, the 2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the 2015 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She lives in Minnesota, where she owns the bookstore Birchbark Books.