WRITER

Sherman Alexie

1966 - Today

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Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.His best-known book is the semi-autobiographical young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), which won the 2007 U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sherman Alexie has received more than 1,786,448 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Sherman Alexie is the 7,050th most popular writer (down from 6,267th in 2019), the 16,079th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,189th in 2019) and the 1,124th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 34.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven
Indian authors, Indians of North America, Spokane Indians
1993
Ten Little Indians
Fiction, Short stories, Indians of North America
Collection of stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heart-rending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.
2003
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Race relations, Young adult fiction, Indians of North America
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
2007
Reservation blues
Fiction, Spokane Indians, Spokane Indians in fiction
1995
Flight
Foster children, Indians of North America, Open Library Staff Picks
2003
The business of fancydancing
Spokane Indians, Literary collections, American poetry
1991

Page views of Sherman Alexies by language

Over the past year Sherman Alexie has had the most page views in the with 155,460 views, followed by German (8,410), and French (5,222). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (93.30%), Finnish (87.72%), and Aragonese (75.53%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sherman Alexie ranks 7,050 out of 7,302. Before him are Rita Dove, Gregory Maguire, Mike Reiss, Viet Thanh Nguyen, James Gould Cozzens, and Grace Ogot. After him are Kenneth Turan, Avijit Roy, Edward P. Jones, Larry Christiansen, Es'kia Mphahlele, and Marguerite Abouet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Sherman Alexie ranks 751. Before him are Kristina Mundt, Yasuyuki Sato, Jaume Fort, Olaf Zinke, Alison Sydor, and Svetlana Jitomirskaya. After him are Jonathan Silverman, Stéphane Traineau, Melanie Joy, Tsutomu Ogura, Hervé Boussard, and Jill Ellis.

Others Born in 1966

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sherman Alexie ranks 16,079 out of 20,380. Before him are Slade Gorton (1928), Merritt Butrick (1959), Barbara Mandrell (1948), Zoe McLellan (1974), Edwin Edwards (1927), and Tim Walz (1964). After him are Kenneth Turan (1946), Joe Johnson (1981), Mary Kay Adams (1962), Candice Michelle (1978), Erika Christensen (1982), and Jonathan Silverman (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sherman Alexie ranks 1,124. Before him are Justin Knapp (1982), Tahereh Mafi (1988), Rita Dove (1952), Gregory Maguire (1954), Mike Reiss (1959), and James Gould Cozzens (1903). After him are Kenneth Turan (1946), Edward P. Jones (1950), Larry Christiansen (1956), Ann Patchett (1963), Cleanth Brooks (1906), and Carter Bays (1975).

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