Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker.
 Much of his writing draws on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes.
 He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
Flight is a novel written by Sherman Alexie.
 It is written in the first-person, from the viewpoint of a Native American teenager who calls himself Zits, "a time traveling mass murderer."
 Zits is a foster child, having spent the majority of his life moving from one negative or abusive family experience to another.
 His friend, Justice, introduces Zits to a new way of thinking, and to the idea of committing random violence.
 Just in the middle of one of these incidents, Zits is thrust into the body of a stranger—which would become the first of many similar incidents.
 The story confronts Zits' feelings of vulnerability as a misunderstood teenager, orphan, and as a Native American person.
Evan Tlesla Adams (born November 15, 1966) is a Canadian actor, playwright and medical doctor.
 A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films of Sherman Alexie, as Thomas Builds-the-Fire in the 1998 film "Smoke Signals" and Seymour Polatkin in the 2002 film "The Business of Fancydancing".
Jim Boyd (1956 – June 22, 2016) was a Native American singer-songwriter, actor, and member of The Jim Boyd Band on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington.
 Boyd has performed in several groups, including XIT, Greywolf, and Winterhawk.
 Boyd sang four songs with lyrics by Sherman Alexie on the soundtrack for the 1998 movie "Smoke Signals", and also appeared in Alexie's "The Business of Fancydancing".
Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by American writer Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d'Alene).
 The novel follows the story of the rise and fall of a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians from the Spokane Reservation.
 In 1995, Thomas Builds-The-Fire, Junior Polatkin, and Victor Joseph, who also appear in Sherman Alexie's short story collection "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," meet American blues musician Robert Johnson.
 He sold his soul to the devil in 1931 and claims to have faked his death seven years later.
 The three boys start a rock and blues band in Spokane using Johnson's enchanted guitar.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a 2007 novel for young adults written by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney.
 The book won several awards, and was the first young adult fiction work by Alexie, a stand-up comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and songwriter who has previously written adult novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays.
 Alexie stated, "I did [write the book] because so many librarians, teachers, and teenagers kept asking me to write one."
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 collection of interconnected short stories by Sherman Alexie.
 The characters and stories in the book, particularly "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona", provided the basis of Alexie's screenplay for the film "Smoke Signals".
Contrary Magazine is a quarterly literary journal that publishes commentary, fiction and poetry, and that specializes in work "that combines the virtues of those categories."
 Founded at the University of Chicago as the "Journal of Unpopular Discontent", "Contrary" began operating independently on the South Side of Chicago in 2003.
 It features new voices beside established writers, and has published such writers as Ben Maddow, Sherman Alexie, Literary Review founder Walter Cummins, the columnist Heywood Broun, the novelist Thomas E. Kennedy, poets Derek Pollard, Robert Lietz, and Taylor Graham, and the first literary fiction of the mystery writer Andrew Coburn.
Esther Belin (born 1968) is a Diné multimedia artist and writer.
 She is a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as the University of California, Berkeley.
 She is the author of a collection of poetry, "From the Belly of My Beauty," published in 1999 by the University of Arizona Press.
 The book won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000.
 According to a review from "Library Journal", "Belin provides graphic descriptions of the 'wounds' one endures remaining true to a 'native lifestyle.'"
 Sherman Alexie considers Belin to be one of his favorite Native writers.
Ali Ahmad Said Esber , romanised: "ʿAlī Aḥmad Saʿīd 'Isbar" (born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس, "Adūnīs") , is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator who is considered one of the most influential and dominant Arab poets of the modern era.
 He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, "exerting a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world.

Question: Who was born first, Sherman Alexie or Adunis?
Answer: Adunis