About Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie is an American Indian who grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in the state of Washington. As a teenager, he left the resrvation to attend high school to get a better education. Although he was lonely there as one of only two Indians, he still became an excellent student and a star basketball player. In college, Alexie studied to be a doctor. After he kept fainting in his anatomy class, he realized he needed to change his career goal. He took a poetry course and decided to become a writer.
Alexie has written many books of poetry, essays, and fiction and has received many awards for his work. His writing has been made into an award-winning film, Smoke Signals.
The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian' is Alexie's first book for young adults /American Themes: an Anthology of Young Adult Literature/.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Alexie
http://ru.scribd.com/doc/88877163/The-Absolutely-True-Diary-of-a-Part-Time-Indian
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