The celebrated novelist, poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, a son of the Spokane and Couer d'Alene tribes.
He made it through a rough childhood and stepped out early, with trademark bravado, in his first novel "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven." He wrote "Ten Little Indians," the screenplay for "Smoke Signals" and a whole lot more.
Now, in his new novel "Flight," he's sending a troubled young half-Indian named Zits on a time-traveling American pilgrimage through Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee and future terrors, too.
Listen to a conversation on On Point with Sherman Alexie about his 18th book, "Flight."
Have you followed Sherman Alexie’s writing, his career? What’s your question for author Sherman Alexie?
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