With recurring characters and themes, My fiction is steeped in the American Indian cultures of North Dakota, the location I was elevated. Erdrich, the daughter of a French Ojibway mother, is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. I studied creative composing at Dartmouth and at Johns Hopkins College. For 15 many yrs she was married to writer Michael Dorris, who acted as my agent and sometime collaborator. My websites: Making Your Very own Law of Accomplishment and Building It Work for You