CHARLES J. SHIELDS’S biography of Harper Lee, the first ever published, became a New York Times bestseller, a Literary Guild Selection, and a Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate. His young adult biography of Harper Lee, I Am Scout (Owl 2008; reprinted 2015), was chosen as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, and a Junior Literary Guild Selection. In 2011, Shields published And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life (Holt), a New York Times and Washington Post notable nonfiction book of the year.
He and his wife, Guadalupe, reside in Charlottesville, Virginia. You can sign up for email updates here.