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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 (born June 2, 1935, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.—died July 16, 2003, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) 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.
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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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Aug 15, 2020 · 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...
By Carol Shields. The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age.
Jan 1, 2001 · A witty and compassionate anatomist of the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her own that place where the domestic collides with the elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most poignant novel to date.
