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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene novelist and poet whose books include Reservation Blues and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Honors

1 National Book Award win

AwardYearBook
National Book Award Winner2007The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Biography

Sherman Alexie is a novelist, short story writer, poet and screenwriter. A registered member of the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene tribes, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington, earned a degree in American studies at Washington State University and later settled in Seattle.

His first book, the poetry collection The Business of Fancydancing (1992), was followed by fiction including Reservation Blues (1995), Indian Killer (1996) and Flight (2007), and by further poetry collections such as One Stick Song (2000) and Face (2009). He collaborated with director Chris Eyre on the film Smoke Signals (1998). His young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), about a teenage cartoonist who leaves the reservation school for an all-white high school, won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Much of his work uses humor to explore contemporary Native American life on and off the reservation.

Books

More books by Sherman Alexie

  • Cover of Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heave

    Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heave

    1997

  • the absolutely true dairy of a part time indian

    the absolutely true dairy of a part time indian

    2007

  • Cover of El diario completamente verídico de un indio a tiempo parcial

    El diario completamente verídico de un indio a tiempo parcial

    2009

  • Cover of How to rise, or, I put my heart into the close

    How to rise, or, I put my heart into the close

    2009

  • Steps for Business from Home

    Steps for Business from Home

    2014

  • Cover of McSweeney's 50

    McSweeney's 50

    2017

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