Carol Shields

Carol Shields (1935-2003), born Carol Warner in Oak Park, Illinois, met a Canadian engineering student in the United Kingdom during a year of study, married him in 1957 and followed him to Canada, where she raised five children before returning to study in Ottawa. She began with poems and a thesis on Susanna Moodie, then came to the novel at the age of forty, with books that critics long judged too domestic. A professor at the University of Manitoba and chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, she died in Victoria.

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• NovelThe Stone DiariesCarol Shields · 1993Literature