![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to the several books of poetry he has published, Alexie has also produced two novels, Reservation Blues (1996) and Indian Killer (1998), and his first short-story collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1994), inspired the well-received 1998 movie Smoke Signals, for which he wrote the screenplay.Īlexie's stories and poems explore the terrain of intimate relationships, contemporary American pop culture, and reservation life without falling into either sentimentality or cynicism. Since the publication in 1992 of his first poetry collection, The Business of Fancydancing (which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, has made a name for himself as a prolific and deft writer of fiction as well as poetry. Sherman Alexie - poet, novelist, short-story writer, Native American - strikes out at the "eagle-feathers school of Native literature" ![]()
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