About Sherman Alexie

An award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie is the master behind such adult titles as Ten Little Indians and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Sherman was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and has been lauded by the Boston Globe as "an important voice in American literature."

Renowned graphic artist Ellen Forney provides the poignant drawings in Sherman’s first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. She has been a professional cartoonist/illustrator since 1992.