Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Reservation Blues | 1995 |
| Indian Killer | 1996 |
| Flight | 2007 |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | 2007 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | 1993 |
| The Toughest Indian in the World | 2000 |
| Ten Little Indians | 2003 |
| War Dances | 2009 |
| Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories | 2012 |
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
| The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems | 1992 |
| I Would Steal Horses | 1992 |
| Old Shirts and New Skins | 1993 |
| First Indian on the Moon | 1993 |
| Seven Mourning Songs for the Cedar Flute I Have Yet to Learn to Play | 1994 |
| Water Flowing Home | 1996 |
| The Summer of Black Widows | 1996 |
| The Man Who Loves Salmon | 1998 |
| One Stick Song | 2000 |
| Face | 2009 |
| What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned | 2013 |
| A Memory of Elephants | 2020 |
Publication Order of Children’s Books
| Thunder Boy Jr. | 2016 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me | 2017 |
About Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie (born 7 October 1966 in Spokane, Washington) is a Spokane novelist, short story writer, poet and filmmaker who grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He is best known for the semi-autobiographical young adult novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, which won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
Alexie was born with hydrocephalus and had brain surgery at six months old. To get a better education he left the reservation school for the high school in Reardan, 22 miles away, where he was the only Native American student. He won a scholarship to Gonzaga University in 1985 and transferred in 1987 to Washington State University, where a creative writing course taught by the poet Alex Kuo set him writing.
His first two poetry collections, “I Would Steal Horses” and “The Business of Fancydancing”, appeared in 1992. His first prose book, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” (1993), is a set of interconnected stories centred on Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, and it won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Alexie adapted it as the screenplay for “Smoke Signals” (1998), a road movie directed by Chris Eyre that took honours at the Sundance Film Festival.
“Reservation Blues” (1995), his first novel, returns to the same characters as adults playing in a band and received an American Book Award in 1996. “Indian Killer” (1996) is a murder mystery set in Seattle. Two novels followed in 2007: “Flight”, narrated by a 15-year-old orphan who calls himself Zits, and “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, in which 14-year-old Arnold Spirit transfers to Reardan High School as Alexie himself did. The story and poetry collection “War Dances” won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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