Carol Shields
American-Canadian novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize for The Stone Diaries. Her quietly radical fiction explores the lives of ordinary women with formal invention. She was one of the most admired novelists in North America.
Works
- The Stone DiariesWoman's life emerges through unconventional narrative of documents and memories
- UnlessWoman grapples with estrangement from her daughter through letters
- Larry's PartyMan learns to live with loss and reinvention at midlife
- Small CeremoniesWoman navigates marriage, motherhood, and identity in suburban Toronto
- The Republic of LoveTwo people write letters that force them to confront their lives