James Welch was the author of the novels Winter in the
Blood, Fools Crow, for which he received the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize, an American Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest
Booksellers Award, The Indian Lawyer, The Death of Jim Loney, and
Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of
the Plains Indians. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort
Belknap reservations in Montana, graduated from the University of
Montana, where he studied writing with the late Richard Hugo, and
served on the Montana State Board of Pardons.
Bestselling author Louise Erdrich grew up in North Dakota and is of German and Turtle Mountain Chippewa descent. Her novels include Love Medicine and The Beet Queen.
"A nearly flawless novel about human life . . . Few books in any
year speak so unanswerably, make their own local terms so
thoroughly ours."
-Reynolds Price, The New York Times Book Review
"For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian
writing they have yet encountered; for others it will simply be a
brilliant novel."
-The New Republic
"An unnervingly beautiful book."
-Roger Sale, The New York Review of Books
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