Sherman Alexie is an American writer and poet. He is the author of Reservation Blues, Indian Killer— a New York Times Notable Book, The Toughest Indian in the World, Ten Little Indians, Flight, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Alexie was named as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 War Dances won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.