David Shields
Author of Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
About the Author
David Shields was born in Los Angeles, California on July 22, 1956. He received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Brown University in 1978 and an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1980. He writes both fiction and nonfiction books. His first novel, Heroes, show more was published in 1984. His other works include Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, How Literature Saved My Life, and Other People: Takes & Mistakes. Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity won the PEN/Revson Award and Dead Languages won the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. He is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by David Shields
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Editor/Contributor — 69 copies, 4 reviews
That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields (2015) 30 copies
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (21st Century Essays) (2019) 15 copies, 1 review
War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* (2015) 15 copies
The Private War of J. D. Salinger 3 copies
Associated Works
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contributor — 188 copies, 3 reviews
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contributor — 57 copies, 1 review
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- 1956-07-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Education
- Brown University
University of Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop) - Occupations
- professor
- Organizations
- University of Washington
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Statistics
- Works
- 39
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 2,321
- Popularity
- #11,055
- Rating
- 3.4
- Reviews
- 80
- ISBNs
- 129
- Languages
- 8