Charles J. Shields
Charles J. Shields is the New York Times bestselling author of two firsts in biography— Mockingbird: A Portrait Of Harper Lee and And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life. He is president of Biographers International Organization (BIO), the only association of its kind, whose membership includes winners of the Pulitzer prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft prize.
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About the book:
Mockingbird
A Portrait of Harper Lee
(Holt, 2006)
To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century’s most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million copies and still sells several hundred thousand a year. Yet despite the book’s perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee, has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, hundreds of interviews, and much new information, Charles J. Shields has brought to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us the classic of American literature, and her journey from tiny Monroeville, Alabama to New York City.
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And So It Goes
Kurt Vonnegut, A Life
(Holt, 2011)
The first biography of famed author, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., assembled from interviews with the author, his family, his friends, and colleagues; and thousands of letters and documents.
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