The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

David Shieldsis the author of eight previous books of fiction and nonfiction, includingBlack Planet(a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award),Remote(winner of the PEN/Revson Award), andDead Languages(winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award). A senior editor atConjunctions,Shields has published essays and stories inTheNewYork Times Magazine,Harper's Magazine,TheYale Review,The Village Voice,Salon,Slate,McSweeney's,andThe Believer. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington.Shields, David is the author of 'The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead' with ISBN 9780307268044 and ISBN 0307268047.