Thursday, January 8, 2009

Sherman Alexie & The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian


Sherman Alexie’s book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is the winner of the 2008 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award. It’s an outstanding young adult novel. I loved it! I give it my highest recommendation.

Sherman Alexie’s award acceptance speech is printed in the January/February 2009 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. You can read the speech here. (You can also scroll down that page at The Horn Book's website and click on a link to listen to Alexie give his speech.)

Click here to read Alexie’s I Still Wish, a Stories Out of School piece, that appeared in the September/October 2008 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

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Sherman Alexie’s Website


Here’s a video taken at the 2007 Texas Book Festival of Sherman Alexie reading from and talking about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian :

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