Carol Shields | |
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Born | Carol Ann Warner June 2, 1935 Oak Park, Illinois, US |
Died | July 16, 2003 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | (aged 68)
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | Canadian American |
Education | Hanover College (BA) University of Ottawa (MA) |
Period | 1972–2002 |
Spouse |
Donald Hugh Shields (m. 1957) |
Children | 5 |
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.