Carol Shields

Carol Shields was an extraordinary Canadian novelist, poet, and biographer whose fiction brought grace, humor, and profound empathy to the ordinary experiences of domestic life. Born in Illinois, Shields became a Canadian citizen and taught literature at the University of Manitoba for many years.

Her 1993 novel, The Stone Diaries, chronicling the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Governor General's Award, achieving global acclaim. Her subsequent novel Larry's Party won the Orange Prize, cementing her reputation as an architect of the human heart.