Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) 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 Wikipedia
A writer cant get a better book review than the one Carol Shields received for her novel The Stone Diaries in The New York Times Book Review in 1993. www.cbc.ca/news/obit/shields_carol/
Shields was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, the daughter of a sweet factory manager and a schoolteacher, and later attended Hanover College, Indiana. books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1000419,00.html
Since she was diagnosed with cancer, prize-winning author Carol Shields has written a biography of Jane Austen, a collection of short stories and her darkest novel to date. observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,706289,00....
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