{"id":118,"date":"2009-09-15T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-09-15T14:28:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:28:01","slug":"louise-erdrich-to-visit-iwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/louise-erdrich-to-visit-iwu\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Louise Erdrich to visit IWU."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ames Library is pleased to announce that author Louise Erdrich has been selected for the 8th Annual Ames\/Milner Visiting Author Program.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Erdrich will be on campus the evening of Thursday, October 22nd 2009.  <\/p>\n<p>3:00 \u2013 4:00 Presentation and Q and A, Milner Library, Illinois State University<\/p>\n<p>7:30 \u2013 8:30 Presentation, Presser Hall, Illinois Wesleyan University <\/p>\n<p>8:30  Book signing, The Ames Library Illinois Wesleyan University<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions or would like to reserve seats for your class, please contact lduke@iwu.edu.<\/p>\n<p>Louise Erdrich is the author of twelve novels as well as volumes of poetry, children&#8217;s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her debut novel, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent novel, The Plague of Doves, a New York Times bestseller, received the highest praise from Philip Roth, who wrote, &#8220;Louise Erdrich&#8217;s imaginative freedom has reached its zenith\u2014The Plague of Doves is her dazzling masterpiece.&#8221; Louise Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/2905\/Louise_Erdrich\/index.aspx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ames Library is pleased to announce that author Louise Erdrich has been selected for the 8th Annual Ames\/Milner Visiting Author Program. Ms. Erdrich will be on campus the evening of Thursday, October 22nd 2009. 3:00 \u2013 4:00 Presentation and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/louise-erdrich-to-visit-iwu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ames-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}