Charles Shields – Charlottesville Podcasting Network

BY Dan Gould February 16, 2019 11:00 am

Apropos Of Something: Writing About Writers & Spotlighting US History In Shadow

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Charles Shields, award-winning, best-selling biographer of mid-century novelists, on his writing process and his noteworthy subjects-- Harper Lee, Kurt…[...]

BY Elizabeth McCullough April 10, 2010 8:38 am

Charles Shields on the Importance of Detail in Biography

Charles Shields, author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee and a forthcoming biography of Kurt Vonnegut, shared his insights on the use of details in biography at WriterHouse on…[...]

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