Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.
"Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr." is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry of several tribes, growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
Some of his best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), a book of short stories, and Smoke Signals (film)/Smoke Signals (1998), a film of his screenplay based on that collection.
His first novel, Reservation Blues, received one of the fifteen 1996 American Book Awards.
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His first young-adult fiction/young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), is a autobiographical novel/semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Sherman Alexie on Wikipedia.When I first read his work, I almost thought it was some kind of parody by a famous white writer, because he takes so many things from me and other writers.
The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
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