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Sherman will receive the 2008 Stranger Genius Award in literature in Seattle on September 13th. Read the story in the Seattle PI.

True Diary has been among the top ten on the New York Times Book Review Children's Best Sellers list for nine months. - 7/31/08

Check out the recently updated "stuff i like" page. - 8/12/08

Sherman and Charles Burnett present a Milestone Film release of The Exiles, directed by Kent Mackenzie. Sherman will present the film at various film festivals - see calendar page for schedule. Sherman and Charles are interviewed on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. Here are some reviews: The New Yorker (7/7/08); The New York Times (7/6/08); Los Angeles Times (7/6/08); The Village Voice (7/7/08); The House Next Door (7/10/08); Salon.com (7/10/8); The Indypendent (7/23/08); Los Angeles Times (8/15/08). Listen to the the interview with Sherman, Charles, and Yvonne Walker Williams on NPR's "Tell Me More" on August 21st.

Interview / Essay by Margo Rabb in The New York Times Book Review: "I'm Y.A., and I'm O.K." - 7/20/08

KCTS Channel 9 in Seattle aired an interview with Sherman on Friday, July 11th. See clips online - Conversations with Enrique Cerna. - 7/11/08

Sherman wins the 2008 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature in Fiction. Read more on the Horn Book Web site. - 6/18/08

Sherman and the Sonics: Watch TV media coverage on NWCN Web site. Read more in the at seattlepi.com, thetribunenews.com and kirotv.com. Read Sherman's column Sonics Death March in The Stranger. (Note: Scroll down for column archive.) - 6/19/08

Sherman won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Watch his acceptance speech on the NBA Web site. Watch a clip on the New York Times Web site. Read the stories in The Seattle P-I (11/14/07), The Seattle Times (11/14/07), The New York Times (11/15/07), and Publishers Weekly (11/15/07). See the True Diary page for a complete list of awards.

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