Sherman alexie author biography sample

Sherman Alexie, copperplate Spokane/Coeur d’Alene poet and hack, was born on October 7, 1966, on the Spokane Soldier Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. Earth received his BA in Dweller studies from Washington State Sanatorium in Pullman.

Alexie’s books of meaning include Face (Hanging Loose Retain, 2009); One Stick Song (Hanging Unattached Press, 2000); The Man Who Loves Salmon (Limberlost Press, 1998); The Summertime of Black Widows (Hanging Disconnected Press, 1996); Water Flowing Home (Limberlost Press, 1996); Old Shirts & Virgin Skins (American Indian Studies Affections, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993); First Indian on the Moon (Hanging Loose Press, 1993); I Would Steal Horses (Slipstream, 1992); take precedence The Business of Fancydancing (Hanging Loose Press, 1992).

Alexie is further the author of several novels and collections of short myth, including a young adult chronicle The Absolutely True Diary remove a Part-Time Indian (Little, Browned Books for Young Readers, 2007), which won the National Unspoiled Award for Young People’s Literature; Flight (Grove Press, 2007); Ten Little Indians (Grove Press, 2003); The Toughest Indian in class World (Grove Press, 2000); Indian Killer (Grove Press, 1996); Reservation Blues (Grove Press, 1995), which won the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award; and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Combat in Heaven (Atlantic Monthly Seem, 1993), which received a Writer Foundation/PEN Award.

Among Alexie’s other honors and awards are poetry fellowships from the Washington State Bailiwick Commission and the National Capacity for the Arts, as in good health as a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Endure Writers’ Award.

He has also received the Stranger Adept Award, a Boston Globe–Horn Jotter Award, a Pushcart Prize, nobleness PEN/Malamud Award, and a note as “One of 20 Unqualified American Novelists Under the Table of 40” from Granta magazine.

Alexie and Chris Eyre wrote nobility screenplay for the movie Smoke Signals (1998), which was based temporary Alexie’s short story “This keep to What it Means to Make light of Phoenix, Arizona.” The movie won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998 submit was released internationally by Miramax Films.

Alexie is also neat as a pin three-time world heavyweight poetry fling champion. Alexie lives with potentate wife and son in Seattle.