Jody Shields

Born Minot, ND (USA)

Shields, who trained as an artist, has been a senior copywriter for Seventeen Magazine, and a contributing editor at Vogue and HG (publisher of House and Garden). She is also a print maker with prints in major museums and collections and shows in the Ellen Sragow gallery in New York City. She has written books on fashion accessories and two major novels. Her first novel, The Fig Eater, was widely reviewed and a financial and literary success. The manuscript for The Fig Eater sold at publisher's auction to Little, Brown, and Co. for $400,000.

Places Lived

Lincoln, NE (Kindergarten through college at UNL)
Madison, WI
New York, NY

Author Of

Fiction
Nonfiction
Play/Screenplay
Journalism
Visual Work

Keywords

Fashion; Fiction; Screenplays; Printmaker

Education

High School Diploma, Lincoln East High School, Lincoln, NE
Undergraduate Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Master of Arts Degree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Occupation

Magazine Editor
Design Editor of the New York Times Sunday Magazine

Places Worked

Vogue
HG (formerly House and Garden)
New York Times Magazine

Bibliography

All That Glitters: The Glory of Costume Jewelry. 1988.
Hats: A Stylish History and Collector's Guide. 1991.
The Fig Eater. 2000.
The Crimson Portrait. 2006.
The Winter Station. 2018.

Has contributed to:
Vogue
Elle
Connoisseur
House & Garden
and the UTNE Reader.

We appreciate corrections and additions to our information about authors, but please read the following guidelines and caveats carefully.

The Nebraska Authors database is based on publicly available sources. Unless you are the author contacting us in person, it helps us if you cite the source or sources of your information. We cannot include unsourced information in the database.
We may be appreciative of information we choose not to include in the publicly available database.
To include an image on an author profile, please send jpg attachment to nebraskaauthors@lincoln.ne.gov. A photo-release agreement is required before the image will be published on this site.
Because of the way we are staffed, expect corrections or additions to take time, sometimes up to three months.
While we initially included some actual links to external URLs in the database, we will in the future no longer provide functioning links. We will instead record the presence of specific external materials in language that we hope will help intelligent users find it themselves. Web rot, in which actual materials remain online but undergo changes in their URLs, is too demanding in terms of staff time for us to hope to keep external links current.

Please copy, fill out the form below, and email it to heritage@lincoln.ne.gov to suggest a change.