Carol Shields

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Carol Shields (nee Warner) was born 2 June 1935 in Oak Park, Illinois and moved to Canada in 1957. She received a B.A. from Hanover College and an M.A. from the University of Ottawa. Shields taught at several universities before becoming Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg in 1996. In 2000, she moved to Victoria, British Columbia where she died of breast cancer on 16 July 2003. Her daughter, Anne Giardini, is also a writer.

Books by Carol Shields

	1972 Others (poetry)
	1974 Intersect (poetry)
	1976 Small Ceremonies (novel)
	1977 The Box Garden (novel)
	1977 Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision (critical study)
	1980 Happenstance (novel)
	1982 A Fairly Conventional Woman (novel)
	1985 Various Miracles (short stories)
	1987 Swann: A Mystery (also released as Mary Swann, novel)
	1988 Departures and Arrivals (play)
	1989 The Orange Fish (short stories)
	1991 A Celibate Season (with Blanche Howard, novel)
	1992 Coming to Canada (poetry)
	1992 The Republic of Love (novel)
	1993 The Stone Diaries (novel)
	1993 Thirteen Hands (play)
	1995 Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families (with Catherine Shields, play)
	1997 Larry's Party (novel)
	1998 Anniversary: A Comedy (with David Williamson, play)
	2001 Dressing Up for the Carnival (short stories)
	2001 Jane Austen (biography)
	2002 Unless (novel)
	2003 Duet (novellas)
	2004 The Collected Stories (short stories)

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