He earned a scholarship to attend Gonzaga University for his pre-med program in 1985. However anatomy classes made him uncomfortable and he had to ditch his dreams of becoming a doctor. He dropped out in 1987. He enrolled at Washington State University to study creative writing. He attended a course taught by the renowned poet Alex Kuo who took him as his ports. Studying poetry under the great scholar inspired him to start writing his own. He received the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Sherman works primarily cover themes like poverty, racism, alcoholism, etc. which were common problems faced by the Native Americans. He would express his serious thoughts in a humorous and light-hearted manner. He later graduated from Washington State University (B.A., 1991) and credited a poetry course he took there with helping him find his voice as a writer. During Sherman University years try to talk about his reservation life. In fact Sherman sending a messages to the Indian peoples in reservation there is hope and the sky is the …show more content…
His first published work, The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems, came out in 1992. In 2002, it was adapted into a film that Alexie wrote and directed, it received mixed reviews. Alexie's first prose novel, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, was published in 1993 and received the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction. Reservation Blues, the sequel to Lone Ranger, came out in 1995 and won the 1996 American Book Award. Alexie's screenplay for the acclaimed independent film Smoke Signals 1998 is based in part on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Alexie's semi-autobiographical novel, won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2007. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian inspired a lot of students, and a lot of peoples fall in love with his speeches, and poems. In fact, Sherman was a strong, fearless witter, and his nice words were impress in a lot of people brain. Give hopes and dreams to his own people that is something not every man can