I’m a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.—Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2007. His collection War Dances won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2012. His work is widely anthologized and often challenged.

• Read his bio, watch a News Hour PBS video (5 minutes, 23 seconds) in which he talks about his life and his poetry, and read some of his poems at The Poetry Foundation.
• When Bill Moyers interviews Sherman Alexie in-depth (39-minute, 19-second video) you really get a sense of who he is and what he values. What a writer! What a lovely guy!
• He’s a staunch supporter of independent booksellers.
• Check out his books here.
• Visit his website.
• Read my post “Writing Stories in Scenes” for a writing exercise based on Sherman Alexie’s story, “Indian Education.”

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