Sherman Alexie's Life And Accomplishments

. Sherman Alexie is an author who grew up in Spokane, Washington and spent his childhood on the spoken Indian reservation but later on left to get a better education in Reardan, Washington, then later on went to Washington University. In Washington University, he met a professor name Alex Kuo who mentored him and taught him to connect to on-native literature that also inspired him to be a writer. After meeting Kou he went on to create his own native literature first starting with poems, then novels and later on creating books. In this paper, I am going to explain Sherman Alexie’s work and accomplishment’s that help make him the man that he is today. Alexie’s writing usually explores themes of hopelessness, poverty, alcohol addiction, racial anger and many others that are usually seen in a Native American life. He addresses these issues in his writing by using a dark …show more content…
Sherman Alexie achieved many things and received many award such as the Pen/Hemingway Award for Best first book of fiction for his story collection “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven “ in 1993 (The Famous People). Alexie also won the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. Alexie was also interviewed by Oprah herself on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Sherman Alexie has won the World Heavyweight Poetry Championship, has been labeled The New Yorker’s “Future of American Fiction “and most recently has won Circle of the Americas 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award for his most recent 2011 short fiction piece—War Dances,(“Chronology” 2). Sherman Alexie also became “one of Granta 's 20 best American novelists under 40 in 1996, and was among the New Yorker 's 20 Best Writers of the 21st century. (Jaggi). Looking all these accomplishment’s and the award you can see that he was a very inspirational man who not only broke the barrier by creating the first all-Indian movie, Smoke