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Carol Shields

Carol Shields
Canadian-American author Carol Shields writes about the “the texture of ordinary life.” Her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries is structured around the major life events of Daisy Goodwill Fleck, a Canadian woman whose life spans most of the 20th century. The book won the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award and the American Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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