Two years later, Shields followed-up his biography of Lee with a young adult version: I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee, which received awards from American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Arizona Grand Canyon Young Readers Master List. "As readable, convincing, and engrossing as Lee's literary wonder," said the Orlando Sentinel. "This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself," wrote Garrison Keillor in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. His first biography for adults, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Holt, 2006) went on to become a New York Times bestseller. Over the course of the next six years, he published 20 histories and biographies for young people. In 1997, Shields left a career in education to write independently. Shields is an American biographer of Mid-Century American novelists.
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