Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie

• By Michaela R.
• Period 6

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The Beginning

• Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 on the Spokane
  Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington,
  where he lived with his family for much of his
  childhood.
• Alexie was born into a family of the Indian tribe
  Spokane/Coeur d'Alene.
• In 1992 Alexie graduated from Washington State
  University, with a degree in American Studies.
• A little while after he graduated, he received
  the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry
  Fellowship.

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His Works of Poetry

• I Would Steal Horses, 1992
• The Business of Fancy dancing, 1992
• First Indian on the Moon, 1993
• Old Shirts New Skins, 1993
• Water Flowing Home, 1995
• The Summer of Black Widows, 1996
• The Man Who Loves Salmon, 1998
• One Stick Song, 2000

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Literary Works (Cont)

• These are some of Alexies other literary works.
  They include novels and short stories.
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,
  1993
• Reservation Blues, 1994
• Indian Killer, 1996
• The Toughest Indian in the World, 2000

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Awards

• Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for The Lone
  Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993)
• Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award
  for Reservation Blues (1994)
• Fellowships from the Washington State Arts
  Commission
• The National Endowment for the Arts
• Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award

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What made him famous

• What made Alexie famous was the publication of
  his first novel Reservation Blues. After this
  novel he was named the best young American
  Novelist. His second novel, Indian Killer, was
  a New York Times notable book. These were the
  two works that made him famous.

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Works Cited Page

• http//encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefMedia.as
  px?refid461573650artrefid701509164sec-1pn1,
  2003 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia.
• http//www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B000C020
  50E, 1997-2003 by The Academy of American Poets.
• http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/alexie/
  onalexie.htm,2000, Kenneth Lincoln University of
  California Press.