Carol Shields is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the US Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
17 Facts About Carol Shields
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Carol Shields studied at Hanover College, in Indiana, where she became a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
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Carol Shields did post-graduate work at the University of Ottawa, where she received an MA in 1975.
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Carol Shields taught Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while living in Vancouver from 1978 to 1980.
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Carol Shields published the novel Swann in 1987, and The Republic of Love in 1992.
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Carol Shields was made Full Professor of English in 1995, and, in 1996, she became chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.
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Carol Shields was the author of several short story collections, including Various Miracles, The Orange Fish, and Dressing Up for the Carnival.
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Carol Shields was the recipient of a Canada Council Major Award, two National Magazine Awards, the 1990 Marian Engel Award, the Canadian Authors Award, and a CBC short story award.
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Carol Shields was appointed as an officer of the Order of Canada in 1998 and was elevated to companion of the Order in 2002.
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Carol Shields was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Manitoba.
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Carol Shields won the 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction for her 1997 novel Larry's Party.
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On retirement in 2000, Carol Shields became Professor Emerita at the University of Manitoba.
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Carol Shields wrote the biography entitled Jane Austen, which won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction in April 2002, an award accepted by her daughter Meg on her behalf in Toronto, on April 22,2002.
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Carol Shields wrote plays including Departures and Arrivals which has been performed hundreds of times by both amateur and professional theaters.
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Collections of poems by Carol Shields were published in 1972 Others, 1974 Intersect, and 1992 Coming to Canada.
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Carol Shields died in 2003 of breast cancer at age 68 in Victoria.
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Films based on Carol Shields's novels include Swann and The Republic of Love.