The Night Watchman (novel)

The Night Watchman
First edition cover
AuthorLouise Erdrich
LanguageEnglish
GenreContemporary Native American fiction
PublishedMarch 3, 2020
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardcover & Paperback
Pages464
ISBN9780062671196

The Night Watchman is a novel by Louise Erdrich first published on March 3, 2020, by HarperCollins.[1] The novel is set in the 1950s. This is Erdrich's sixth standalone novel following Future Home of the Living God. The novel was inspired by the life of Erdrich's grandfather who motivated and inspired other members of the Turtle Mountain Reservation to resist the Indian termination policies of the 1940s-1960s.[2] The Night Watchman is the first novel that Erdrich has written that is set on the Turtle Mountain Reservation.[3]

In 2021, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[4]

  1. ^ Erdrich, Louise (2020). The Night Watchman. New York, NY: HarperCollins. p. 464. ISBN 9780062671196.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Louise Erdrich Weighs In on the Battle Over Fiction and Identity". Time. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  4. ^ "'The Night Watchman,' Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers". ABC News.