Larry Woiwode

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1969
  • Latest Book:
    October 2011
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Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • What I'm Going to Do, I Think

  • Beyond the Bedroom Wall

    Nominated for several major awards and said by many to be one of the greatest novels of the century, Woiwode's epic is the story of four generations of the Neumiller family. "Nothing more beautiful and moving has been written in years". -- New York T...

  • Even Tide

  • Poppa John

    His real name is not Poppa John. His life has been built upon a variety of disguises. Close to seventy, wise, crotchety, troubled, outspoken, he is one of those elusive individuals whose very shifts and turnings serve to make him more himself and ...

  • The Neumiller Stories

    This volume collects Woiwode's original series, written for the New Yorker in the sixties and seventies and later incorporated into his second novel, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, but also a fresh harvest of more recent stories about the immigrant family ...

  • Indian Affairs

    In the sequel to What I'm Going to Do, I Think, Chris and Ellen return to northern Michigan while Chris writes his dissertation and reassesses his native American heritage, but a prowler menaces the cabin and a group of young Indians threaten...

  • Silent Passengers

  • Born Brothers

    Woiwode first introduced the Neumiller family in the critically acclaimed novel Beyond the Bedroom Wall. In Born Brothers he returns to this North Dakota family, focusing on the 30-year relationship between two Neumiller brothers, Charles and Jero...

  • A Step from Death

    Larry Woiwode's literary fame began with his first novel, the 1969 classic What I’m Going to Do, I Think, and continued unabated through his brilliant 2000 memoir What I Think I Did. In this deeply affecting follow-up to the latter, Woiwode address...



  • The Invention of Lefse

    “Mette Iversdatter’s window was a porthole on the winter sky.”

    Larry Woiwode brings us into the simple and anxious rhythms of life for a Norwegian farm girl in the first decade of the twentieth century. Christmas Eve falls in the midst...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Larry Woiwode has published 10 books.

Larry Woiwode does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Invention of Lefse, was published in October 2011.

The first book by Larry Woiwode, What I'm Going to Do, I Think, was published in June 1969.

No. Larry Woiwode does not write books in series.
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