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Robert Shields (diarist)
Reverend Robert Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was a former Minister and high school English teacher who lived in Dayton, Washington, USA, 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).〔
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Believing that discontinuing his diary would be like "''turning off my life''", he spent four hours a day in the office on his back porch, in his underwear, recording his body temperature, blood pressure, medications, describing his urination and bowel movements, and slept for only two hours at a time so he could describe his dreams.〔 (The 3.75 million word estimate in the Mail's article comes from a misplaced decimal point. Though the title's error is repeated in the article, it is contradicted by the article's own estimate of his productivity: Over an uninterrupted 25-year period ''"In a good year he wrote three million words but only managed a million in a bad one."'')〕 It is believed that Shields suffered from hypergraphia, an overwhelming urge to write. He once said "''Maybe by looking into someone's life at that depth, every minute of every day, they will find out something about all people.''" He also left behind samples of his nose hair for future study.
Shields's self-described "uninhibited", "spontaneous" work was astonishing in its mundaneness, and now fills 94 cartons〔 (three further boxes of additional papers are included in the archive)〕 in the collections of Washington State University, to whom he donated the work in 1999.〔 In a May 2000 interview he said "''I've written 1200 poems and at least five of 'em are good.''" He also claimed to have written the story base for Elvis Presley's film ''Love Me Tender'' based on the Reno Gang of Seymour, Indiana where Robert William Shields was born. Copies of the manuscript are at the Kansas State Historical Society, E P Lamborn collection. Shields based his manuscript on John Reno's 1879 autobiography.
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