Facts: - imagesize: 250px - caption: alexie at the texas book festival in 2008 - birth name: sherman joseph alexie , jr. - notableworks: indian '' '' smoke signals '' '' reservation '' blues '' '' the lone ranger and tonto fistfight the in heaven '' '' war dances '' absolutely true diary of a part-time - genre: native american literature , humor , documentary fiction - awards: american book award 1996 - birth date: 07 october 1966 - name: sherman alexie - movement: indigenous nationalism - nationality: spokane/coeur d'alene / american - image: sherman alexie 2007.jpg - birth place: spokane , washington , usa - occupation: poet , author , screenwriter , filmmaker Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of sherman alexie .
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sherman joseph alexie , jr. -lrb- born october 7 , 1966 -rrb- is an american poet , writer , and filmmaker .much of his writing draws on his experiences as a native american with ancestry of several tribes , growing up on the spokane indian reservation .he lives in seattle , washington .some of his best-known works are '' the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven '' -lrb- 1993 -rrb- , a book of short stories , and '' smoke signals '' -lrb- 1998 -rrb- , a film based on that collection , for which he also wrote the screenplay .his first novel , '' reservation blues '' , received one of the fifteen 1996 american book awards .his first young adult novel , '' the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian '' -lrb- 2007 -rrb- , is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 u.s. national book award for young people 's literature and the odyssey award as best 2008 audiobook for young people -lrb- read by alexie -rrb- .his 2009 collection of short stories and poems , '' war dances '' , won the 2010 pen/faulkner award for fiction .