SHERMAN ALEXIE: Featured writer for National Native American Heritage Month

Sherman Alexie
photo:  Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0

Sherman Alexie is the author of novels, stories, and poems. He is the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award, 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2001 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and a Special Citation for the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction.  Smoke Signals, the film he wrote and co-produced, won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. He lives with his family in Seattle.

Awards:
1992:  National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship
1993:  PEN/Hemingway Award for The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
1994:  Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award
1996:  American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation for Reservation Blues
            Granta magazine's Twenty Bst American Novelists under the Age of 40
            The New York Times Notable Book for Indian Killer
            People Magazine's "Best Of" pages 
1999:  The New Yorker's 20 Writers for the 21st Century
2010:  PEN/Faulkner Award for War Dances
            Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award 
            Puterbaugh Fellowship
            California Young Reader Medal for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian  

See his website.

Read a more extensive biography at   The Poetry Foundation . 


Most of Sherman Alexie's books are in the Fogelson Library collection.  Many are on display near the circulation desk on the main level.  You can find others on the lower level at call number PS3551 .L35774 .