Table of Contents
- 1 What has Sherman Alexie written?
- 2 How many books has Sherman Alexie made?
- 3 What are two awards Sherman Alexie has received?
- 4 What gift did he say he gave his two sons?
- 5 What made Sherman Alexie famous?
- 6 What awards has Alexie received?
- 7 How many children does Sherman Alexie have?
- 8 What was Sherman Alexie born with?
- 9 Who is Michael Shermer and what does he do?
- 10 When is Michael Shermer’s last column for Scientific American?
What has Sherman Alexie written?
| Sherman Alexie | |
|---|---|
| Notable works | • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Smoke Signals • Reservation Blues • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven • You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir • War Dances |
| Notable awards | American Book Award 1996 National Book Award 2007 PEN/Faulkner 2010 |
| Website |
How many books has Sherman Alexie made?
25 books
Sherman Alexie (born October 7, 1966) is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker who has published more than 25 books.
What was Sherman Alexie first book?
Reservation Blues
His first novel, Reservation Blues (1995) was selected as a Booklist Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction. He published Indian Killer in 1998. In 1999 The New Yorker acknowledged Alexie as one of the top writers for the 21st Century.
What are two awards Sherman Alexie has received?
Alexie’s other honors include poetry fellowships from the Washington State Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award and Sundance Film Festival awards.
What gift did he say he gave his two sons?
Although his childhood permanently scarred him, it also gave him a gift — it provided him with rich source material for his writing career. He found solace in boyhood in the escapism of the James Bond films, he says. He explains that his two sons watch these films with the same tremendous enjoyment he did at their age.
How old is Alexie?
55 years (October 7, 1966)
Sherman Alexie/Age
What made Sherman Alexie famous?
A prolific writer, he published in 1993 two more books of poetry—First Indian on the Moon and Old Shirts & New Skins—and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, a collection of interwoven stories that won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first book of fiction.
What awards has Alexie received?
National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAmerican Book AwardPEN/Malamud AwardDos Passos Prize
Sherman Alexie/Awards
How many siblings does Alexie have?
The son of a Coeur d’Alene native American father and a Spokane native American mother, Alexie was born hydrocephalic and was not expected to survive a brain operation in infancy. One of six brothers and sisters, he grew up on a reservation of 1,100 people, where most of his family still live.
How many children does Sherman Alexie have?
two sons
Sherman Alexie and his wife Diane Tomhave have two sons named David and Joseph. The family lives in Seattle, Washington.
What was Sherman Alexie born with?
October 7, 1966 (age 55 years), Wellpinit, WA
Sherman Alexie/Born
What are the titles of Dr.Michael Shermer’s books?
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Who is Michael Shermer and what does he do?
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When is Michael Shermer’s last column for Scientific American?
January 2019: In his 214th consecutive and final ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer reflects on what science brings to the human project. In his December 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American Michael Shermer discusses how to avert a looming crisis among today’s youth.
What are the main themes of the Devil by Michael Shermer?
The new collection of essays and articles takes the devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the devil his due.