Enough About You Notes Toward the New Autobiography

by Shields, David; McElwee, Ross

• ISBN13: 9781593762193
• ISBN10: 1593762194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

A terrifically engrossing exploration and exploitation of self-reflection, self-absorption, full-blown narcissism and the impulse to write about oneself. In a world awash with memoirs and tell-alls, Shields has created something unique, inviting the reader into his mind as he turns his life into a narrative.

Author Biography

David Shields is the author of Reality Hunger: A Manifesto and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller. He is the author of eight other 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; he's written reviews for The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer.

Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington. Since 1996 he has also been a member of the faculty in Warren Wilson College's low-residency MFA Program for Writers, in Asheville, North Carolina. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.