Winner of Washington State Arts Commission poetry and National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships, Sherman Alexie (born 1966) has published poems, stories, translations, and several books. Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 and grew up in...

Sherman Alexie is the "Indian du jour" of the mainstream publishing industry, as he notes in his 1995 Tonic interview with Kelly Myers. Alexie has published seven books and three chapbooks in less than five years; while such productivity is remarkable...

Sherman Alexie's writing has attracted a broad spectrum of readers in a relatively brief span. During his first eight years in publishing, Alexie was awarded the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship (1991), the National Endowment for the...

Should Christopher Hitchens win a National Book Award, you can be sure he won't thank any higher powers.The author, columnist and commentator was nominated for "God Is Not Great," a polemic with a self-evident theme. Hitchens' book received mixed reviews, but became a best seller...

Oprah Winfrey has pulled a discredited children's book, Forrest Carter's "The Education of Little Tree," from a list of recommended titles on her Web site, blaming an archival "error" for including a work considered the literary hoax of a white supremacist."The archived listing was posted...

With the United States fighting an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, stories of espionage and critiques of foreign policy were winners at the 58th annual National Book Awards.Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke," a 600-page journey through the physical, moral and spiritual extremes of the Vietnam...

The National Book Awards were held last night at the Marriot Marquee, bringing hordes of agents and editors--along with authors like Toni Morrison, Jonathan Franzen, and Joan Didion, who received a lifetime achievement award--to Times Square.As widely predicted, Denis Johnson won the fiction prize...

In the following essay, Evans discusses Alexie's depiction of contemporary reservation life in his poetry and fiction.

In the following essay, Gillan traces the influences of popular video culture on the content and structure of Sherman's storytelling in poetry and prose.

In the following essay, Gillan examines Alexie's work and comments on its focus on an anglicized version of American-Indian history and tradition.

Sherman Alexie's novels examine the relationships between whites and American Indians. He uses subtle sarcasm and sly humor to make his points about racism and the mistreatment of American Indians, such as setting "The Lone Ranger" and "Tonto" against each other to dispel their Hollywood hero myths.