Carol Shields (1935-2003) is recognised as one of the most ...

Carol Shields (1935-2003) is recognised as one of the most prominent
Canadian writers, whose literary merit has been proved by a multitude
of her literary prizes and whose popularity with the mass audience
labelled her as a best-selling author. Born in the United States of
America, Chicago, and living in Canada since 1957 until her death in
2003, Shields is regarded as one of the excellent writers mapping the
lives of contemporary Canadian girls, women and men. What
fascinated Shields was human life with all its complexities and
indeterminacies.
Carol Shield’s most acclaimed novel is The Stone Diaries (1993)
which sold in more than a million copies. The novel received the 1995
Pulitzer Prize and numerous other literary awards. The Stone Diaries
charts a life of an ordinary extraordinary woman named Daisy and its
form ab/uses the form of auto/biography. Shields’ other successful
novels and fiction are Small Ceremonies (1976), The Box Garden
(1977), A Fairly Conventional Woman (1982), a collection of short
stories Various Miracles (1985), which includes the award winning
short story entitled “Mrs. Turner Cutting Grass”, a literary detective
fiction Swann: A Mystery (1987), an unusual biography of a man
entitled Larry’s Party (1997) and Unless: A Novel (2002). In 1998,
Carol Shields was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In
the introduction to Collected Stories by Carol Shields another
celebrated Canadian writer Margaret Awtood noticed: “live she did,
and live she does; for as John Keats remarked, every writer has two

souls, an earthly one and one that lives on in the world of writing as a
voice in the writing itself. It's this voice, astute, compassionate,
observant, and deeply human, that will continue to speak to her
readers everywhere."