... graduating from WSU, he received the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship in 1991 and the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1992. Not long after, two of his poetry collections, The Business of Fancydancing and I Would Steal Horses were published. After these were published, he immediately gave up drinking. His first collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1993. For his collection ... he received a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction, and was awarded a Lila Walla...

• Word Count: 1246
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of America's dirty little secrets. In the paragraphs that follow, I will review Alexie's life, the genre and style in which he writes, and the overall themes of his work. I will analyze the short story, "Every Little Hurricane", taken from the anthology, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966 in WellPoint, Washington. He belongs to the Spokane Tribe of American Indians called the Salish Group. At the time of his birth he ... "He weaves a curiously soft-blended tapestry of humor, humility, pride and metaphysical provocation out of hard r...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... intertextual quilt of visions for his first foray into major league publishing, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Like many Native American authors, Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur D'Alene writer who won an impressive following with his little-press premiere (The Business of Fancydancing, Hanging Loose Press), enjoys and celebrates the interplay between mythology and history, between "dreams" and "stories" and "visions" and "reality." Unlike many Native American authors, Alexie is as apt to evoke ... to pay homage to other Native American artists such as Leslie Silko or Gerald Vize...

• Word Count: 413
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate