David Shields's new book, The
Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead,
(Knopf, 2008), was a New York Times
bestseller. He is the author of eight previous books,
including Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA
Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the
Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the
PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A
Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award.
His essays
and stories have appeared in the
New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review,
Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and
Utne Reader; he's written reviews for the
New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times
Book Review, Boston Globe, and
Philadelphia Inquirer. Shields has
received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an
Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein
Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle,
where he is a professor in the English department at the
University of Washington. Since 1996 he has also been a member
of the faculty in Warren Wilson College's low-residency MFA
Program for Writers, in Asheville, North Carolina. His work
has been translated into French, German, Dutch, Norwegian,
Japanese, Turkish, Korean, Portuguese, and Persian. He was the
chair of the 2007 National Book Awards nonfiction
panel.
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