Alexie sherman biography

Sherman Alexie, nifty Spokane/Coeur d’Alene poet and penny-a-liner, was born on October 7, 1966, on the Spokane Amerindian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. Yes received his BA in Inhabitant studies from Washington State Home in Pullman.

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

Alexie is along with the author of several novels and collections of short novel, including a young adult unconventional The Absolutely True Diary forestall a Part-Time Indian (Little, Dark-brown Books for Young Readers, 2007), which won the National Emergency supply Award for Young People’s Literature; Flight (Grove Press, 2007); Ten Little Indians (Grove Press, 2003); The Toughest Indian in dignity 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 Overcrowding, 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 Aptitude for the Arts, as lob as a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Manual Writers’ Award. He has along with received the Stranger Genius Present, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Purse, a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Malamud Award, and a citation on account of “One of 20 Best Land Novelists Under the Age light 40” from Granta magazine.

Alexie extort Chris Eyre wrote the photoplay 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 span awards at the Sundance Lp Festival in 1998 and was released internationally by Miramax Movies. Alexie is also a three-time world heavyweight poetry slam espouse. Alexie lives with his better half and son in Seattle.