Sherman Alexie is an acclaimed American author and poet, best known for his work that draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry from several tribes. He was born in Spokane, Washington in October 1966 and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, which is about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, WA. Alexie has published 18 books to date, and his writing often explores the experiences of modern Native Americans.
Alexie's education took him to Reardan High School, Gonzaga University, and Washington State University, where he eventually settled on creative writing as his major. His impressive achievements and accolades have earned him recognition as a leading voice in Native American literature. Alexie has won numerous awards for his work, including the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award, the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and a Special Citation for the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction.
In addition to his work as an author, Alexie is also an occasional comedian. He has written and coproduced films, including Smoke Signals, which won both the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Alexie's most recent works include Blasphemy, a collection of short stories, and Face, a book of poetry. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington with his family.
Plays
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Smoke Signals
1993
2
Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay
2003
Picture Books
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1
Thunder Boy Jr.
2016
Collections
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The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems
1991
2
Old Shirts & New Skins
1993
3
First Indian on the Moon
1993
4
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
1993
5
Water Flowing Home
1995
6
The Summer of Black Widows
1996
7
The Man Who Loves Salmon
1998
8
The Toughest Indian in the World
2000
9
One Stick Song
2000
10
Ten Little Indians
2003
11
Face
2009
12
Blasphemy
2012
13
What I've Stolen, What I've Earned
2013
14
The Best American Poetry 2015
2015
Non-Fiction Books
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Conversations with Sherman Alexie
2009
2
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
2017
PEN America Books (with Jamaica Kincaid, with Sergio de la Pava, with Gina Apostol, with Earl Lovelace, with M. Mark, with Helen Hofling, with Rosie Achorn-Rubenstein)
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PEN America Issue 17: PEN Voices
2014
Standalone Novels
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Reservation Blues
1995
2
Indian Killer
1996
3
Flight
2007
4
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
2007
5
War Dances
2009
6
Radioactive Love Song
2009
Short Stories/Novellas
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Distances
1993
Sherman Alexie Anthologies
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Seventh Annual Collection
1994
2
The Best American Short Stories 1994
1994
3
Granta 54: The Best of Young American Novelists
1996
4
Home Field Writers Remember Baseball
1997
5
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
6
Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
1999
7
The New Young American Poets
2000
8
Ploughshares Winter 2000-01
2000
9
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
2000
10
Humor Me: An Anthology of Humor by Writers of Color