Alexie sherman biography

Sherman Alexie, graceful Spokane/Coeur d’Alene poet and penman, was born on October 7, 1966, on the Spokane Soldier Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. Sharp-tasting received his BA in Indweller studies from Washington State Order of the day in Pullman.

Alexie’s books of metrical composition include Face (Hanging Loose Subject to, 2009); One Stick Song (Hanging Unfastened Press, 2000); The Man Who Loves Salmon (Limberlost Press, 1998); The Summertime of Black Widows (Hanging Unsecured Press, 1996); Water Flowing Home (Limberlost Press, 1996); Old Shirts & Newborn 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); boss The Business of Fancydancing (Hanging Loose Press, 1992).

Alexie is besides the author of several novels and collections of short novel, including a young adult latest The Absolutely True Diary elder a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brownish Books for Young Readers, 2007), which won the National Volume Award for Young People’s Literature; Flight (Grove Press, 2007); Ten Little Indians (Grove Press, 2003); The Toughest Indian in influence 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 Scrap in Heaven (Atlantic Monthly Pack, 1993), which received a Author Foundation/PEN Award.

Among Alexie’s other honors and awards are poetry fellowships from the Washington State Covered entrance Commission and the National Talent for the Arts, as athletic as a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Survive Writers’ Award.

He has besides received the Stranger Genius Accord, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Give, a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Malamud Award, and a citation in that “One of 20 Best Indweller Novelists Under the Age strain 40” from Granta magazine.

Alexie subject Chris Eyre wrote the stage show for the movie Smoke Signals (1998), which was based on Alexie’s short story “This is What it Means to Say Constellation, Arizona.” The movie won couple awards at the Sundance Album Festival in 1998 and was released internationally by Miramax Motion pictures.

Alexie is also a three-time world heavyweight poetry slam titleist.

Alexie lives with his wife current son in Seattle.