William Shaw (writer)

William Shaw works as a journalist and writer in the U.S. and in the UK. One of his most noticeable works is the book called "Westsiders". He worked on Details magazine and remains a contributing editor there. For Details he spent a month in the Utah Desert living with Stone Age survivalists, went undercover at cross burnings with the neo-Nazi Christian Identity Movement in Idaho, shot AK-47s with Zionist fundamentalists in upper New York State and spent a week staying at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center in Hollywood. He started his journalistic career as the Assistant Editor of the punk/goth magazine ZigZag. Since then his work has appeared in publications around the world, including the Times, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, "The Observer", the Mail on Sunday, the South China Post, FHM, Tatler, US Vogue, George, Face, GQ, Esquire and Cosmopolitan. His first book, "Travellers", was an oral history of Britain's New Age Travellers. That was followed in 1994 by "Spying in Guru Land", an account of a year spent as a member of several British religious cults.

His most recent book was based on his Observer column, "Small Ads", appeared in 2005 as "Superhero for Hire".

His blog [http://www.unmadeup.com Un-Made-Up] , launched in May 2006, is described on the site as a "growing collection of narrative non-fiction miniatures". He has taken this idea of true stories onto the streets in his installation for the 2007 Brighton Festival, 41 Places. Over a period of seven months Shaw created a "unique project by featuring 41 pieces of narrative, found, edited, designed and reinstalled into the places they were discovered."

William Shaw lives in Brighton.

References

*http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/default.asp?id=38&section=1

*http://www.unmadeup.com/

*http://www.41places.org/