Sherman J. Alexie, Jr., was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, WA. Alexie has published 18 books to date. Alexie is an award-winning and prolific author and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern Native American. Sherman'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.
Series
Books
Ten Little Indians
2003
Indian Killer
1996
Dangerous Astronomy
2005
Smoke Signals
1993
Reservation Blues
1995
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
2007
Flight
2007
Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999
1999
Face
2009
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
2013
Indian Education
1993
A Memory of Elephants
2023
Home Field
Writers Remember Baseball
1997
The Toughest Indian in the World
2000
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
2017
Thunder Boy Jr.
2016
First Indian on the Moon
1993
WA129
2017
Blasphemy
New and Selected Stories
2012
War Dances
2009
One Stick Song
2000
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
1993
What I've Stolen, What I've Earned
2013
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
1999
The Living Dead
2008
The Man Who Loves Salmon
1998
The Business of Fancydancing
1991
What You Pawn I Will Redeem
2003
The Summer of Black Widows
1996
Old Shirts & New Skins
1993
Selected Shorts
New American Stories
2011
