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Charles J Shields

Charles J. Shields is the author of Harper Lee's New York Times bestselling biography Mockingbird , the Kurt Vonnegut biography And So It Goes , and the biography of John Edward Williams, The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel . Shields has spoken to hundreds of large audiences in schools, libraries, museums, and historic theaters and appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the Wall Street Journal , New Yorker , Huffington Post , and New York Times .