Sherman Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian who grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, is a prolific writer and poet, as well as an entertaining and thought-provoking speaker. His first collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1993. For this story collection he received a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction, and was awarded a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. In March 2005, Grove Atlantic Press reissued the collection with the addition of two new stories. Alexie won the National Book Award in 2007 for his young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. A new collection of poetry, Face, was released in March 2009. Alexie has won numerous literary awards and honors, including the Pushcart Prize, the Odyssey Award and inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2004 and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005. A new book of short stories, War Dances, was released in October 2009.
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