Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is an author, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern Native American. Alexie's best known works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, was born in October 1966, on the Spokane...
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Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is an author, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern Native American. Alexie's best known works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, was born in October 1966, on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He was born with water in the brain (hydrocephalus). Against all odds, he survived without mental retardation. He did suffer seizures throughout his childhood, and as a child spent a lot of time reading. He read John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath by the time he was five years old. Alexie decided to attend high school off the reservation after finding his mother's name written in a textbook assigned to him at the reservation high school, which he found depressing and degrading.
In 1985, Alexie...
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