David Shields

David Shields is the author of more than twenty books, including The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (a New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice). His work has been translated into two dozen languages. He wrote, produced, and directed Lynch: A History , a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynch's use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools...See more

David Shields is the author of more than twenty books, including The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (a New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice). His work has been translated into two dozen languages. He wrote, produced, and directed Lynch: A History , a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynch's use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance. See less