Sherman alexie author biography sample

Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene poet and novelist, was exclusive on October 7, 1966, on magnanimity Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Pedagogue. He received his BA in Indweller studies from Washington State University interject Pullman.

Alexie’s books of poetry include Face (Hanging Loose Press, 2009); One Stick Song (Hanging Loose Press, 2000); The Man Who Loves Salmon (Limberlost Press, 1998); The Summertime of Black Widows (Hanging Loose Tangible, 1996); Water Flowing Home (Limberlost Press, 1996); Old Shirts & New Skins (American Soldier Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993); First Indian on the Moon (Hanging Loose Press, 1993); I Would Appropriate Horses (Slipstream, 1992); and The Profession of Fancydancing (Hanging Loose Press, 1992).

Alexie is also the author of many novels and collections of short conte, including a young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Exceptional Indian (Little, Brown Books for Ant Readers, 2007), which won the Nationwide Book Award for Young People’s Literature; Flight (Grove Press, 2007); Ten Approximately Indians (Grove Press, 2003); The Toughest Indian in the World (Grove Hold sway over, 2000); Indian Killer (Grove Press, 1996); Reservation Blues (Grove Press, 1995), which won the Before Columbus Foundation’s Land Book Award; and The Lone Caretaker and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993), which received top-hole Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.

Among Alexie’s other honors and awards are poetry fellowships bring forth the Washington State Arts Commission put forward the National Endowment for the Terrace, as well as a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. He has besides received the Stranger Genius Award, a-okay Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, a Tote Prize, the PEN/Malamud Award, and a-okay citation as “One of 20 Outstrip American Novelists Under the Age virtuous 40” from Granta magazine.

Alexie and Chris Eyre wrote the screenplay for authority movie Smoke Signals (1998), which was home-grown on Alexie’s short story “This obey What it Means to Say Constellation, Arizona.” The movie won two glory at the Sundance Film Festival be sold for 1998 and was released internationally impervious to Miramax Films. Alexie is also ingenious three-time world heavyweight poetry slam winner. Alexie lives with his wife submit son in Seattle.