View source for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Sherman Alexie (2010)

This event happened on May 8th 2010 at Folger Shakespeare Library.    

'''2010 – Sherman Alexie, ''War Dances'''''

Barbara Kingsolver, ''The Lacuna''

Lorraine López, ''Homicide Survivors Picnic''

Lorrie Moore, ''A Gate at the Stairs''

Colson Whitehead'', Sag Harbor''

'''Sherman Alexie''' - Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, a PEN/Hemingway Citation for Best First Fiction, and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and performer.

He has published 26 books including his recently released memoir'', You Don't Have to Say You Love Me,'' his first picture book'', Thunder Boy Jr,'' and young adult novel, ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,'' all from Little, Brown Books; ''What I've Stolen, What I've Earned'', a book of poetry, from Hanging Loose Press; and ''Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories'', from Grove Press.

He has also published the 20th Anniversary edition of his classic book of stories, ''The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.''

''Smoke Signals,'' the movie he wrote and co-produced, won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, Alexie grew up in Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian Reservation. 

Alexie has been an urban Indian since 1994 and lives in Seattle with his family.