b. 1966
Biography
The author of over 20 books, Sherman Alexie is an acclaimed poet, novelist, filmmaker, and performer. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, War Dances won the 2010 PEN Faulkner Award, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven won a PEN Hemingway Special Citation.