# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-shields
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:15:24.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-shields"
name: "David Shields"
slug: "david-shields"
description: "David Shields 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."
tagline: "American author and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DavidShields_AuthorPhoto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.562493333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-shields-821087196/"
    handle:    "david-shields-821087196"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davidshields.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shields"
    title: "David Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ديفيد شيلدز (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "ديفيد شيلدز (كاتب مقالات من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shields_(Autor)"
    title: "David Shields (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shields"
    title: "David Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shields"
    title: "David Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shields"
    title: "David Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q376271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump