David Shields

About The Author

David Shields is the author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestseller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead; Reality Hunger, named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications; and Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

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Books by David Shields

Salinger

By David Shields and Shane Salerno

Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than two hundred people—and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company— Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of o...

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Body Politic

The Great American Sports Machine

By David Shields

In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an empire in denial. Shields relentlessly examines the way we tell our sports stories (both fictiona...

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