May you be the war dancer
Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and his work draws on deep Native American roots. Among his many works is the poetry collection Face; the story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, winner of a PEN/Hemingway Award; and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, for which he received the National Book Award. In 2010 Alexie received the PEN/Faulkner Award for War Dances, a collection of stories, essays, and poems. His newest collection is Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories (Grove, 2012). Alexie lives with his family in Seattle.
Photograph by Rob Casey.
