Author, poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie was named one of The New Yorker's 20 top writers for the 21st century. The New York Times Book Review described him as "one of the major lyric voices of our time." Men's Journal has called him "the world's first fast-talking and wisecracking mediagenic American-Indian superstar."
Sherman Alexie is best known for his stories The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals and the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash. he draws on his experiences as a modern Native American for his stories.
