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FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHY

Cline, Lynn. “About Sherman Alexie.” Ploughshares 26, no. 4 (winter 2000): 197–202.

Cline offers an overview of the life and career of Sherman Alexie.

CRITICISM

Alessio, Carolyn. “Sherman Alexie's Characters Struggle to Establish Their Identities On and Off the Reservation.” Chicago Tribune (4 June 2000): 5.

Alessio offers a positive assessment of The Toughest Indian in the World.

Bankston, Carl L., III. “Weaving the Line of the Spirit.” Bloomsbury Review 12, no. 6 (September 1992): 7.

Bankston discusses the characterization in The Business of Fancydancing, commenting that Alexie's poetry diverges from his usual themes of everyday life.

Cliff, Michelle. “Poetry Is a Way of Reaching Out to What Is Reaching for You.” American Poetry Review 24, no. 4 (July 1995): 29–30, 34–35.

Cliff discusses the...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Leslie Ullman (review date summer 1993)
   2. Verlyn Klinkenborg (review date 18 June 1995)
   3. Denise Low (review date winter 1996)
   4. Jennifer Gillan (essay date March 1996)
   5. Lee Lemon (review date Spring 1996)
   6. Howard Meredith (review date Spring 1996)
   7. Sherman Alexie and Doug Marx (interview date 16 September 1996)
   8. Madison Smart Bell (review date 17 November 1996)
   9. Sherman Alexie and Erik Himmelsbach (interview date 17 December 1996)
   10. Judith Bolton-Fasman (review date 6 January 1997)
   11. Robert L. Berner (review date spring 1997)
   12. Peter Donahue (essay date Spring 1997)
   13. Ron McFarland (essay date Spring 1997)
   14. Sherman Alexie and John Purdy (interview date 4 October 1997)
   15. Michael Gorra (review date 5 March 1998)
   16. Sherman Alexie and Dennis West and Joan M. West (interview date fall 1998)
   17. Dan Georgakas (review date fall 1998)
   18. Jonathan Levi (review date 18 June 2000)
   19. Jonathan Penner (review date 9 July 2000)
   20. Joyce Carol Oates (review date 20 July 2000)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Sherman Alexie