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In her empathetic, elegantly wrought novels, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields portrayed a world very much like our own: at times confusing, painful, and joyous, and populated with characters as complex as those we know in life. Shields passed away on July 16, 2003 after a long battle with breast cancer, leaving a formidable literary legacy.
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Fact File
| Name:
Carol Shields
Current Home:
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Date of Birth:
June 2, 1935
Place of Birth:
Oak Park, Illinois
Date of Death:
July 16, 2003
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Toronto, Canada
Education:
B.A., Hanover College, Indiana; M.A. (English), Ottawa University, 1975
Awards:
Orange Prize for Women’s Fiction for Larry’s Party, 1998; Pulitzer Prize for The Stone Diaries, 1995; National Book Critics Circle Award for The Stone Diaries, 1994
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A Garden of Short Stories
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| | Dressing Up for the Carnival
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Carol Shields
Shields wrote dozens of keen-eyed stories during her lifetime; these collections offer up a wealth of her masterful shorter fiction. The New York Times Book Review called Dressing Up for the Carnival's playful stories "a glittering sample case of a writer at work."
The Orange Fish
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Carol Shields
Various Miracles
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Carol Shields
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| | The Stone Diaries
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Carol Shields
With The Stone Diaries, Shields gained a large following -- not to mention the Pulitzer Prize. The novel traces the life history of a single woman from her birth to her death, and in doing so unfolds a tale of the century itself, rendered through an unforgettable mind.
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| | Possession
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A. S. Byatt
In an interview with Barnes & Noble.com, Shields named A. S. Byatt's Possession as one of her favorite books, because it "captures what many novels leave out: the life of the mind and the excitement of intellectual reflection." Read our interview and learn more about Shields's all-time favorite writers and reads, including:
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