Robert Shields (diarist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Shields (diarist)

diarist

Date of Birth: 17-May-1918

Place of Birth: Seymour, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 15-Oct-2007

Profession: writer, teacher, diarist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Reverend Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was a former Minister and high school English teacher who lived in Dayton, Washington, United States, and left behind a diary of 37.5 million words that fills 94 boxes.
The diary chronicles every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
Shields's diary was longer than those kept by the journalist Edward Robb Ellis (21 million words), the poet Arthur Crew Inman (17 million words), and perhaps the most famous diarist of all, Samuel Pepys (1.25 million words).