David Shields

David Shields (born July 22, 1956) is an American author of twenty-five books, including Reality Hunger (2010), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (2008), and Black Planet (1999). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, twice an NEA Fellow, a PEN Revson Award winner, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and the PEN West Award, and a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions. Shields is a visiting professor at Warren Wilson College and Vermont College of Fine Arts' MF…