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Native American author and filmmaker (born )

Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, ) 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.^[2]

His best-known book is the semi-autobiographicalyoung adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (), which won the U.S.

National Book Award for Young People's Literature^[3] and the Odyssey Award as best audiobook for young people (read by Alexie).^[4]

He also wrote The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (), a collection of short stories, which was adapted as the film Smoke Signals (), for which he also wrote the screenplay.

His first novel, Reservation Blues, received a American Book Award.^[5] His collection of short stories and poems,