ShermanAlexie

__**Personal Life**__ Born in October 1966, he was raised a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene indian on the Spokane Indian Reserve in Wellpinit WA. He was not expect to live very long due to his hydrocephalic condition (had water on his brain), but he underwent surgery at 6 months of age and pulled through. He had some serious side effects of the opperation like severe seisures and bed wetting. None the less he learned to read at three years old and read many novels. During his teenage years he decided to go to Reardan High School wich was off of the reservation because he would get a better education there. After graduating from Reardan he went to Gonzaga University on a scholarship, but after two years transfered to Washington State University. [|Sherman Alexie biography][|Sherman Alexies Official Website]

Sherman Alexie has been writing since he was in college. He has also done some work in music and movie writing and production. During his extensive writing career he has even done some stand up comedy. By 1991 he had already published 17 books. He writes every thing from short stories to poems to screen plays and novels. Alexie has two films being __The Business of Fancydancing__ and __Smoke Signals.__
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 * __Major works__**
 * The Lone Ranger nd Tonto Fistight in Heaven
 * Ten Little Indians
 * Smoke Signals: Regenmacher
 * Reservation Blues
 * Indian Killer

__**Awards won**__
 * 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
 * Winner, 17th Annual World Championship Poetry Bout
 * 1996: Before Columbus Foundation: American Book Award
 * 1993: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award

Sherman Alexie was a contemporary Native American Writer that focused on Native American life on a reservation.
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