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Carol Shields

(1935 - 2003)

About Carol Shields

Carol Shields is American born, spent three years in Manchester in the 60s, but now lives in Canada. Married with five children. Her first novel was published in 1990.

Novels

Small Ceremonies (1976)
The Box Garden (1977)
Happenstance (1980)
A Fairly Conventional Woman (1982)
Mary Swann (1987)
The Orange Fish (1989)
A Celibate Season (1991) (with Blanche Howard)
The Republic of Love (1992)
The Stone Diaries (1993)
Larry's Party (1997)
Unless (2002)
Duet (2003)

Collections

Others (poems) (1972)
Intersect (poems) (1974)
Various Miracles (1985)
Coming to Canada: Poems (poems) (1992)
Dressing up for the Carnival (2000)
The Collected Stories (2004)

Plays

Anniversary (1998)

Anthologies edited

Dropping Threads (2002)

Non fiction

Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision (1977)
Jane Austen (2001) (see Jane Austen)

Awards

	The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1993) : The Stone Diaries
	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (1995) : The Stone Diaries
	Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (1997) : Larry's Party
	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2002) : Unless
	The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2002) : Unless
	Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2003) : Unless

Carol Shields recommends

Girls (1997) Frederick Busch "Fierce, wise, gripping, and true."	Critical Injuries (2001) Joan Barfoot "I have no doubt that this wise, funny, harrowing novel will be the book of the year."	Helpless (2007) Barbara Gowdy "She writes like an angel."

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