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Carol Ann Shields CC OM FRSC (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
May 29, 2024 · Carol Shields was an American-born Canadian author whose work explores the lives of ordinary people. Her masterpiece, The Stone Diaries (1993), won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Shields grew up in the United States and in 1957 graduated from Hanover College in Indiana.
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Jun 3, 2012 · Carol Shields, novelist, poet, playwright, biographer (born at Oak Park, Illinois 2 Jun 1935; died at Victoria, BC 16 Jul 2003). Shields was educated at Hanover College, Indiana, the University of Exeter England, and the University of Ottawa.
Official information on Carol Shields' novels, short stories, poetry and plays, including a detailed biography, information for book clubs and much more.
Aug 15, 2020 · When Carol Shields died of breast cancer in 2003, her obituary in The New York Times remembered her as a novelist whose work highlighted the “ profundity of the mundane ,” while The...
Jul 16, 2003 · Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award. Her novel Swann won the Best Novel Arthur Ellis Award in 1988.
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Apr 28, 2023 · On May 4, the winner of the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which celebrates the work of Canadian and American women and non-binary writers, will be announced.
