Sherman Alexie

(1966-)

Native-American (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene tribal member) author of poems, short stories, novels, and screen plays.


Author's life and works

Contemporary Authors Online

"Sherman Alexie" From Chanku Ota A Newsletter Celebrating Native America, June 17, 2000 - Issue 12

2000 Interview:
Sherman Alexie reads from and talks about The Toughest Indian in the World on Bookworm, SEP 28 2000, 12:00-12:30A.

1998 Interview:
"Sending Cinematic Smoke Signals" by Dennis West and Joan M. West, from Cineaste, 1998.

1995 Interview:
Sherman Alexie talks about Reservation Blues on Bookworm, MON, OCT 16, 1995, 12:00A- 12:30.

"A Conversation with Sherman Alexie" by Diane Thiel, from Crossroads Online


Criticism of work in general

"'Open containers': Sherman Alexie's drunken Indians." by Stephen F. Evans from American Indian Quarterly (25:1) 2001, 46-72.

"Sherman Alexie's Autoethnography" by J Newton in Contemporary Literature, 2001.


Indian Killer

"Indian Killer," in Literature Resource Center


"Captivity"

Study questions from Postmodern American Fiction Online


Links

The Official Sherman Alexie Homepage

Internet Public Library: "Sherman Alexie"

Alexie reads from "Dear John Wayne"
from his collection of stories The Toughest Indian in the World. From Salon.com.

Sherman Alexie at Modern American Poetry

student & teacher resources from Sherman Alexie’s Home Page