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Sherman Alexie

Screenwriter / Film Director / Writer / Poet / Novelist | * 10/07/1966 (57) | Wellpinit (United States of America (USA))
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington. His best-known book is the semi-autobiographical young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), which won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). He also wrote The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), a collection of short stories, which was adapted as the film Smoke Signals (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay. His first novel, Reservation Blues, received a 1996 American Book Award.His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Sherman Alexie

PEN/Malamud Award American Book Awards National Book Award for Young People's Literature O. Henry Award Peter Pan Prize PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Dos Passos Prize

TV Shows/Series with Sherman Alexie as Actor(1)


Full Name: Sherman Alexie
Born: Friday, 10/07 1966 (October) in Wellpinit (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 57 years + 173 days)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Washington State University
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Letters
Sherman Alexie frequently works together with these people:
Stephen Colbert (4x, Actor)
Paul Dinello (3x, Crew)
Jon Stewart (3x, Actor)
Rich Dahm (3x, Crew)
Tom Purcell (3x, Crew)
Charlize Theron (2x, Actress)
Glenn Eichler (2x, Crew)
Barry Julien (2x, Crew)
Al Sharpton (2x, Actor)
Barney Frank (2x, Actor)
David Copperfield (2x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1306855, Added: 09/03/2019, Last updated: 03/13/2024