Our Next Author

David Shields
Thursday, October 1, 2009

“The Writer’s Story,” 3:30PM, Garfield Book Company
Reading, 5:30PM, Ingram 100


David Shields’s most recent book, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, 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. Past awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington.