Canadian · 1935–2003
Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for "The Stone Diaries," a novel tracing an ordinary woman's life from birth to death with extraordinary attention. The Canadian-American author specialized in domestic fiction that revealed the depths beneath surface ordinariness. "Larry's Party" won the Orange Prize; "Unless" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in the year she was dying of cancer. Shields transformed the novel of manners into something fierce and strange.