David Shields es un autor estadounidense de veinticinco libros, entre los que se incluyen Reality Hunger (2010), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (2008) y Black Planet (1999). Ha sido becario Guggenheim, dos veces becario NEA, ganador del Premio PEN Revson, finalista del National Book Critics’ Circle Award y del PEN West Award, y editor colaborador sénior de Conjunctions.
- Occupation
- writer, university teacher, film director, essayist
- Position held
- Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 22, 1956
- Website
