(1966-    ) US author, songwriter and stage performer, a full-blood Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, known first for his poetry. Some of the stories in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) are of genre interest; Reservation Blues (1995), though perhaps more justly deemed a fantasy than sf, interestingly Reincarnates Robert Johnson on a Spokane Indian reservation, where he passes his gift on to a young Indian performer, who electrifies the world with the chthonic power of his Music. [JC]

see also: Race in SF.

Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr

born Wellprint, Washington: 7 October 1966

died

works

• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993) [hb/]
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (New York: Grove/Atlantic, 2005) [exp of above: hb/]
• Reservation Blues (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995) [hb/Wendell Minor]

links

• Sherman Alexie
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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