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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else. (101)
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.
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