David Shields

 

Professor
PDL A-414
543-2247 (voice mail)
Email: dshields@davidshields.com

Degrees

B.A., (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Brown University, 1978
MFA, (Honors in Fiction), University of Iowa, 1980

Professional Affiliations

PEN, Authors League, Writers Guild of America, Poets & Writers, Associated Writing Programs, MLA

Areas of Interest

Personal essay, memoir, collage, blurred-genre work, fiction

Research interests

David Shields is the author of eight books, including Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN/USA Award; Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages, winner of the Governor’s Writers Award. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Yale Review, Village Voice, Utne Reader, Tin House, Threepenny Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Believer.

Selected Publications

• Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine. Simon & Schuster. 2004.
• Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography. Simon & Schuster. 2002.
• "Baseball Is Just Baseball": The Understated Ichiro. TNI Books. 2002.
• Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season. Crown. 1999.
• Remote: Reflections on Life in the Sahdow of Celebrity. Knopf. 1996.
• A Handbook for Drowning: A Novel in Stories. Knopf. 1992.
• Dead Languages: A Novel. Knopf. 1992.
• Heroes. Simon & Schuster. 1984.

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