Sherman Alexie--Biography and Awards
Biography
Alexie homepage biography http://www.fallsapart.com/biography.html
Current Biography Yearbook 1998. "Sherman Alexie." New York: H. W. Wilson Company. 13-15.
Native Authors homepage biography http://nativeauthors.com/search/bio/biosherman.html
Awards
1991: Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship
1992: National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year for The Business of Fancydancing
Slipstream Chapbook Contest Winner for I Would Steal Horses
1993: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award
Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award Citation
PEN/Hemingway Award: Best First Book of Fiction Citation Winner for The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Great Lakes College Association: Best First Book of Fiction Award
1994: Bram Stoker Award Nominee for "Distances"
1996: Before Columbus Foundation: American Book Award
Morgan Murray Prize for Reservation Blues
Granta Magazine: Twenty Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40
1998: Tacoma Public Library Annual Literary Award
New York Times Notable Book for Indian Killer
People Magazine: Best of Pages
Winner, 17th Annual World Championship Poetry Bout
1999: New Yorker: 20 Writers for the 21st Century
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