Sherman Alexie
Novelist, Author
1966 –
Who is Sherman Alexie?
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry of several tribes, growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
Some of his best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, a book of short stories, and Smoke Signals, a film of his screenplay based on that collection.
His first novel, Reservation Blues, received one of the fifteen 1996 American Book Awards. His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people. His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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- Born
- Oct 7, 1966
Wellpinit, Washington - Also known as
- Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr.
- Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr.
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Gonzaga University
- Washington State University
- Reardan High School
- Lived in
- Washington
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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