The Stone Diaries
When I was young, I think I can remember my mother having a copy of this book. My lovely spouse also remembers one being somewhere in her childhood home. This is a review of Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries.
Carol Shields
(June 2nd, 1935 — July 16th, 2003)
Carol Shields (neé Warner) was an American-born Canadian novelist. She is the only author to have a novel win both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Both were for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries.
Shields was born in Illinois. She studied in Illinois, Ottawa, and Exeter. While on a sponsored study week in Scotland, she met her future husband, Donald Hugh Shields. In 1957, they married and moved to Canada.
In the 1970s, Shields began to work as an editorial assistant for a Canadian journal. Then she began to write novels of her own. Both she and her husband taught at the University of Manitoba during the 1980s.
Her novels were very popular in the last twenty years of her life, and she won multiple awards for writing. In 2000, she retired to Victoria in British Columbia. She died in 2003 of breast cancer.
After her death, her stories were adapted to film. In 2020, a new fiction award was created in her name: The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Carol Shields is a book author.
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