As a child he lived on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Early life Īlexie was born at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington. His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. His first novel, Reservation Blues, received a 1996 American Book Award. It was adapted as the film Smoke Signals (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay. His best-known book is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), a collection of short stories. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir.The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.Native American literature, humor, documentary fiction
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