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David Shields [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Seattle, WA
Washington US
Email: 
dshields@davidshields.com
Bio: 

David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), and Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). Other People: Takes and Mistakes is forthcoming from Knopf in February 2017. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, Shields has published essays and stories in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Believer. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Los Angeles
Raised in: 
San Francisco, CA
Website: 
https://www.davidshields.com [2]
Prizes won: 

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead named one of the best books of the year by Amazon, Artforum, Salon, TimeOut Chicago, and Seattle Times, 2008

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, for Black Planet, 2000

Finalist, PEN USA Award, for Black Planet, 2000

Washington State Governor’s Writers Award, for Dead Languages, 1990

PEN Syndicated Fiction winner, 1988, 1985

What I'm reading now: 
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
The Last Novel by David Markson
The Pharmacist's Mate by Amy Fusselman
The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray
Shuffle by Leonard Michaels
Identifies as: 
Jewish
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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