The Washington Post, July 18th, 2003
Carol Shields, 68, whose empathetic and witty novels about the lives of ordinary people included the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Stone Diaries," died July 16 at her home in Victoria, B.C. She had breast cancer. A native of Illinois who had lived in Canada since 1957, Mrs. Shields published her first novel at age 40. She soon became a respected author in her adopted country, but was relatively unknown in America until publication of "The Stone Diaries," which won her international recognition, including the 1995 Pulitzer for fiction. The book became a bestseller and won the National Book Critic...
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