Carol Shields (Author of The Stone Diaries)

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Carol Shields

Born

in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States

June 02, 1935

Died

July 16, 2003

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Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award. Her novel Swann won the Best Novel Arthur Ellis Award in 1988. ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 85,691 ratings · 5,786 reviews · 61 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Stone Diaries 3.89 avg rating — 41,243 ratings — published 1993 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unless 3.63 avg rating — 16,865 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Larry's Party 3.74 avg rating — 8,982 ratings — published 1997 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen: A Life 3.69 avg rating — 4,395 ratings — published 2001 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Republic of Love 3.74 avg rating — 2,926 ratings — published 1992 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swann 3.71 avg rating — 2,293 ratings — published 1987 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition 3.74 avg rating — 1,522 ratings — published 1980 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Ceremonies 3.77 avg rating — 1,218 ratings — published 1976 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Box Garden 3.68 avg rating — 1,241 ratings — published 1977 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Stories of Carol Shields 4.13 avg rating — 785 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don鈥檛 move until you鈥檝e reached page fifty. Until you鈥檝e buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

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“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

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“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
― Carol Shields, Unless

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Our August retreat will focus on three or four selected works of a particular author. This is the poll to select that author. Poll will be open for a week.

Barry Unsworth

3 votes, 27.3%

Geraldine Brooks

3 votes, 27.3%

Carol Shields

2 votes, 18.2%

Sarah Waters

2 votes, 18.2%

Joyce Carol Oates

1 vote, 9.1%

Doris Lessing

0 votes, 0.0%

Iris Murdoch

0 votes, 0.0%

Peter Ackroyd

0 votes, 0.0%

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