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Carol Shields

(Carol Ann Warner Shields)

(1935 - 2003)

Carol Shields is American born, spent three years in Manchester in the 60s, and lived her adult life in Canada. Married, had five children andtwelve grandchildren. She died in Canada in July, 2003.

Awards: Women's Prize (1998), Pulitzer (1995), NBCC (1994) see all

Novels

   Small Ceremonies (1976)
   The Box Garden (1979)
   A Fairly Conventional Woman (1982)
   Mary Swann (1987)
     aka Swann
   The Republic of Love (1991)
   A Celibate Season (1991) (with Blanche Howard)
   The Stone Diaries (1993)
   Larry's Party (1997)
   Unless (2002)
   Duet (2003)

Collections

   Others (poems) (1972)
   Intersect (poems) (1974)
   Various Miracles (1985)
   The Orange Fish (1989)
   Coming to Canada (poems) (1992)
   Fanfare (1999) (with others)
   Dressing up for the Carnival (2000)
   Thirteen Hands and Other Plays (2002)
   The Collected Stories (2004)

Anthologies edited

Dropped Threads (2001) (with Marjorie Anderson)
Dropped Threads 2 (2003) (with Marjorie Anderson and Catherine Shields)

Plays show

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Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Carol Shields

Loss (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

Love (2012)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories (2007)
edited by
Jane Urquhart

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Awards

	1998 Women's Prize For Fiction : Larry's Party
	1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : The Stone Diaries
	1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : The Stone Diaries

Award nominations

	2003 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : Unless
	2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Unless
	2002 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Unless
	1993 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields recommends

Critical Injuries (2001)
Joan Barfoot
"I have no doubt that this wise, funny, harrowing novel will be the book of the year."

Latitudes of Melt (2000)
Joan Clark
"Latitudes of Melt has wonderful moments of clarity and trancendence, but never loses sight of what an ordinary life is."

Girls (1997)
Frederick Busch
"Fierce, wise, gripping, and true."