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	Carol Shields - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born Carol Ann Warner in Oak Park, Illinois, she studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and the University of Ottawa, where she received an M.A. In 1956 while on a college exchange visit to Britain she met a Canadian engineering student, Donald Hugh Shields, in Scotland.
		Shields is the author of several novels and short-story collections, including The Orange Fish, Swann (published in the United Kingdom as Mary Swann), Various Miracles, Happenstance, and The Republic of Love.
		Shields was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Manitoba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carol_Shields (520 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Carol Shields
		Carol Shields, who died on Wednesday aged 68, wrote novels and stories which illuminate ordinary people and small events; she had a special talent for drawing significance from the trivia of the workaday world.
		Carol Shields also presented the novel as a knowing pastiche of the autobiographical form, with end-papers illustrating an elaborate family tree and, at the centre of the book, a section of glossy photographs supposedly depicting the novel's characters - though not Daisy.
		Carol Shields was born Carol Ann Warner in Ohio on June 2 1935, the daughter of a manager in a sweet factory and a schoolteacher.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/18/db1801.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/07/18/ixopright.html (1471 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Carol Shields
		The writer Carol Shields, who has died of cancer at the age of 68, did not start life as a Canadian, despite becoming one of that country's most distinguished literary figures; in fact, she was born and brought up in the same Chicago suburb as Ernest Hemingway.
		Shields was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, the daughter of a sweet factory manager and a schoolteacher, and later attended Hanover College, Indiana.
		Shields lectured at the University of Ottawa from 1977 to 1988 and, after moving around the country, she and Donald finally settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she was professor of English at the University of Manitoba from 1990, and then chancellor of the University of Winnipeg from 1996.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1000873,00.html (1147 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Carol Shields
		Carol Shields is the author of ten novels and two collections of short stories.
		Pulitzer Prize-winning Canadian novelist Carol Shields passed away on July 16th at the age of 68, due to complications from breast cancer.
		Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois and attended Hanover College in Indiana, earning her bachelor's degree in 1957.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-shields-carol.asp (1117 words)

	The Observer \| Magazine \| Human Shields
		You wonder how many have sat before the gentle, unassuming Carol Shields and made the mistake of patronising her, not realising that, all the time, she is putting their foibles and pretensions though the paper shredder of her mind.
		Carol Shields was born in Chicago in 1935.
		An avid reader (Shields likes to say that church, school and the library were the trinities of her childhood), among her favourites were British writers such as TS Eliot, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen (on whom she later wrote a biography).
	www.observer.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,706289,00.html (2330 words)

	ipedia.com: Carol Shields Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born Carol Ann Warner in Oak Park, Illinois, she studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and the University of Ottawa, whe...
		Carol Shields is the author of several novels and short-story collections, including The Orange Fish, Swann (published in the UK as Mary Swann), Various Miracles, Happenstance, and The Republic of Love.
		Carol was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Manitoba.
	www.ipedia.com /carol_shields.html (481 words)

	Book review: 'Jane Austen' by Carol Shields
		Shields’ response is shaped by the fact that she is one of ‘those who interest themselves in the creative art’.
		Aspects of the novels’ heroines reflect, for Shields, aspects of their creator’s own capacities, but it is Anne Elliot who ‘combines Austen’s sense of loss and loneliness, her regrets, her intelligence and, in the end, her unwillingness to lead a disappointed life’.
		Shields’ approach to her subject has the advantage not only of introducing readers unfamiliar with this material to some details of Austen’s life but also of creating succinctly, strongly and memorably an impression of Austen and her work.
	www.jasa.net.au /books/shields.htm (775 words)

	CBC: Life And Times
		In the documentary, Shields is seen in her ordered domestic life, writing at her computer, shopping, cooking, and enjoying the fruits of literary success - interviews, theatre openings, awards.
		Among those who comment on Carol Shields and her work are Margaret Atwood, agent Christopher Potter, theatre critic Richard Ouzounian, and CBC Radio's Eleanor Wachtel.
		Life & Times of Carol Shields ends in Victoria as the writer and her husband begin a new life, refugees from Winnipeg's harsh winters.
	www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/shields.html (365 words)

	Unless by Carol Shields - read a review
		Shields is writing about a writer who often shares with the reader thoughts about her writing.
		Carol Shields, born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1935, studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England and received an MA from the University of Ottawa.
		Most of her latest novel, Unless was written in seven months when Shields "had energy." In 1999, she was diagnosed with breast cancer; she had a mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy, but still it came back and died of complications on July 16, 2003 at the age of 68.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/shields.htm (1211 words)

	EB on Carol Shields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Novelist Carol Shields fashioned the type of fiction she had wanted to read but could not find: stories about women's friendships and their inner moral and intellectual lives.
		Shields believed that telling a story from a single perspective was too limiting.
		Shields won the Marian Engel Award, given to a Canadian woman writer for her body of work.
	io.uwinnipeg.ca /~morton/Telecourse/Stone_Diaries/eb_on_carol_shields.htm (482 words)

	Unless by Carol Shields, published by Fourth Estate, previous works are Larrys Party, Stone Diaries...
		Shields writing is full of wonderful descriptions of lifes most simple things - the public library, Retas house, the scarf she buys for her daughter.
		"Carol Shields is one of the wisest writers in English, one of those who can punge her needle into the apparently small matters of a life and draw out the universe, or display the world in a small, cosy pool of domesticity....Unless is a very special novel, suipremely intelligent, emotionally rich, deeply moving.
		Shield's ability to capture (seemingly effortlessly) the haunting melancholy that seems to be the truth beneath so many of life's events, great and small, is a gift I am always grateful for -- one that few other writers possess.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books/11unless.htm (2044 words)

	What Books: Unless: A Novel by Carol Shields: Award Winner
		Shields’ writing is the clarity and accessibility of her words.
		As this is a signal novel, profound and resonant, written with the virtuosity and understated brilliance that is distinctive to Carol Shields.
		Shields invents a heroine forced to discard her suspicion of feminism and tiptoe towards it, learning to ask questions about so --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
	www.whatbooks.com /awards/unless_novel.php (1403 words)

	CTV.ca \| Carol Shields: An extraordinary career, cut short
		Shields didn't write her first novel until she was 40.
		Shields started writing poems when her children were little.
		Then in 1998, Shields' world ground to a halt as she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1058443597609_40?hub=Specials (762 words)

	Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
		Upon the news of Carol Shields’ passing at age 68 from complications of breast cancer, the literary world mourns her loss yet celebrates the talent of a vibrant and much-loved author.
		Shields’ success is undoubtedly linked with what broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel has called Shields’ “particular kind of humanity.” Wachtel notes that Shields’ humanity is “the foundation of her commitment to writing as a form of redemption.
		Carol Shields was a much-loved presence in the Canadian literary world and though she will be deeply missed, her “particular kind of humanity” will live on in her works and in the hearts of her readers.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/shields.asp (775 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
		Carol Shields's characters are often on the road less traveled, and the trip is never boring.
		Shields often focused on female characters, most notably in The Stone Diaries, her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel documenting the birth, death, and everything in between of Daisy Goodwill.
		But don't pigeonhole Shields as a "women's writer." "I have directed a fair amount of energy and rather a lot of rage into that particular corner [of the] problem of men and women, particularly men and women who write and how women's novels are perceived differently from men's," Shields said in a 2001 interview.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?userid=0B3OD2XA22&cid=743856 (1094 words)

	Powell's Books - Collected Stories by Carol Shields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels.
		"Shields, who died in 2003, was best known for her novels (The Stone Diaries; Unless), though she published three collections of stories over as many decades, here elegantly gathered and introduced by fellow Canadian and friend Margaret Atwood.
		Carol Shields was born and brought up in Chicago but lived in Canada for most of her life.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=29399&cgi=product&isbn=0060762039 (557 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Unless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is these brave and still necessary, if no longer "fashionable", questions, and Carol Shields' enormous capacity to entertain so wisely and unflinchingly, that make Unless such a joy to read.--Ruth Petrie --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
		All Carol Shields' novels and short stories are brilliant, but none more so than 'Unless.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		Carol Shields was a writer who just got better and better and there's no finer tribute to her than this book.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0007137699 (1333 words)

	Bookreporter.com - UNLESS by Carol Shields
		Shields, in making an ordinary life astonishing, seemed to be writing for all women upon whose unsung existence (at the margins, under the surfaces) the world depends.
		Shields is rare among modern novelists in her ability to write persuasively about marriage, with neither bitterness nor sentimentality, and to conceive of contentment within it (the Times profile observes, almost enviously, the tenderness of Shields's own long union).
		Perhaps Shields is saying that this is not the end --- there is more to her story.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0007154615.asp (675 words)

	Former Irish Distance Runner Jim Tyler Among Six New Directors To Join Monogram Club Board :: Tyler, Dr. Carol Lally ...
		Carol Lally Shields (basketball,'79), Barb Mooney (softball, '89), Dan Rahill (swimming, '79), Frank Reynolds (football, '59) and Jim Tyler ('cross country/track, '86) were approved to serve three-year terms on the Monogram Club from 2005-08 while Katie Neff (volleyball, '04) has joined the board to fill the spot of Van Pearcy (to 2006).
		Lally Shields has served her alma mater as a member of the Notre Dame College of Science advisory council since 1989 and she recently was nominated by Notre Dame for the NCAA's prestigious Silver Anniversary Award.
		Carol Lally came to Notre Dame in the fall of 1975 as an accomplished high school athlete and promising student in the science field.
	www.collegesports.com /sports/c-xc/stories/061805aaa.html (3634 words)

	CBC News - Carol Shields
		Shields was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998.
		Carol’s daughter, Meg, accepted the prize for her mother at a ceremony in Toronto on April 22.
		Many assume Shields is a born and bred Canadian, since she spent nearly her entire working life in Canada, living, teaching and writing in Ottawa, Winnipeg and finally Victoria.
	www.cbc.ca /news/obit/shields_carol (1123 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Unless: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shields assigns each short chapter with "little chips of grammar (mostly adverbs or prepositions) that are hard to define" such as "therefore, otherwise, instead, already," etc. Most tellingly she uses one of these 'chips' as the title of this novel, and it is only half way through that she tells us why.
		Carol Shields has written such a book for me- the jacket describes this book as an author with family issues one of which is a daughter who quits college to become homeless.
		Shields' conversation pieces are excellent, there is a description of an interview which Reta has with a male journalist which bristles with suppressed anger; while on the surface being professional and polite.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0007141076?v=glance (2605 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Novelist Carol Shields dies
		Photo: AP The Canadian novelist Carol Shields has died aged 68, her publishers announced today.
		Shields was a prolific writer, producing 10 novels, three collections of short stories, as well as poetry, plays and critical studies.
		Shields had been undergoing treatment for breast cancer and had grown increasingly frail in recent months.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1000071,00.html (257 words)

	Welcome to the Carol Shields Profile
		Acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Carol Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1935, and currently resides in Victoria, British Columbia.
		In her honour, The city of Winnipeg established The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, which was given out for the first time at Brave New Words: the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards ceremony in the year 2000.
		Carol is the recipient of eight honorary doctorates from Universities in Canada and the United States and was awarded the order of Canada in 1999.
	www.mbwriter.mb.ca /mapindex/s_profiles/shields_c.html (632 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Unless" by Carol Shields
		At one point in Carol Shields' new novel, the narrator, Reta Winters, contemplates a recurring dream in which she stands in her kitchen, charged with preparing a meal for guests, and discovers only "a single egg, or maybe a tomato," in the refrigerator.
		After the unspooling, patchwork fashion of most Carol Shields novels (though not perhaps as eccentrically as her Pulitzer-winning "The Stone Diaries"), "Unless" describes Reta's largely happy life and the aftermath of what appears to be the sole tragedy to ever seriously ruffle its surface.
		Shields' fiction has always had this sort of stealth spikiness, like soft fish that, when bitten into, turns up a web of bone, or like that sweet middle-aged lady next door when you were growing up, who turns out to have been watching you more shrewdly and understanding you more completely than you ever suspected.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2002/05/23/shields (1034 words)

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