Updated: Tickets for this event are now gone.

Earlier: Best-selling Seattle author Sherman Alexie will be at the Ballard Library next month – but you need tickets to attend.

From Seattle Public Library:

Seattle writer Sherman Alexie is the author of 22 books. His books of poetry include “Face” (2009), “One Stick Song” (2000), and “Old Shirts & New Skins” (1993). He is the bestselling author of the young adult novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (2007), which won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Alexie’s novels and books of short stories for adults include “War Dances” (2009), which won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, “Flight” (2007), and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” (1993).

The Washington Poets Association and the Ballard Library are bring Alexie in for a reading and book signing. The University Bookstore will be selling his books at the event.

Alexie will be at the Ballard Library from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 1st. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required – and there’s a limit of two per person. You can get tickets here.