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GenealogyBuff.com - Carol Shields, Author
Posted By: GenealogyBuff.com
Date: Friday, 9 September 2016, at 3:31 a.m.
System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC!Carol Shields, Author
1935 - July 16, 2003
Carol Shields at the age of 68 years died Wednesday night of complications from breast cancer that was first diagnosed almost five years ago. Her novels, short stories, plays and poems got to the heart of her characters' inner lives, showing how places, people and relationships make us who we are. Readers seeking an emotive, evocative, page-turning read, were never let down by the writings of Carol Shields. She celebrated the lives of ordinary women in her novels and made them extraordinary. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1935 and was the youngest of three children. She studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and the University of Ottawa, where she received an M.A. In 1957 she married Donald Hugh Shields, a professor of Civil Engineering, and moved to Canada. She has lived there ever since. In addition to raising five children, all of whom are now grown, she has worked as an editorial assistant for the journal Canadian Slavonic Papers and as a professor at the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Manitoba, where she has taught for the last fifteen years. She was presently living in Winnipeg. She authored several novels and short-story collections, including The Orange Fish, Swann, Various Miracles, Happenstance, and The Republic of Love. Her books have won a Canada Council Major Award, two National Magazine Awards, the Canadian Author's Award, and a CBC short story award. The Stone Diaries was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1993 Booker Prize, and won Canada's Governor General Award. It was also named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and a "Notable Book" by The New York Times Book Review. She leaves her husband Don, her children, John Shields, Anne Shields Giardini, Catherine Shields, Meg Shields and Sara Cassidy Shields. Details of memorials planned in Victoria and Winnipeg will be made available at a later time.
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