... again in the Thirties is palpable. She has this in common with other talented neurotics - Jack Kerouac, George Gissing, Jean Rhys - who also managed to keep themselves poverty-stricken and social outcast, for very much the same reason. (Gornick 1) Yerziebska died in 1970 in New York, in poverty still searching to quench that inner fire. She gave women a sense of it ... college where she earned her BA in 1976. At Dartmouth she entered the college at the same time the Native American Studies Department was opened; as a result, Erdrich took an anthropology course in which she began explori...

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