id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3599 Carol Shields - Wikipedia .html text/html 3113 359 72 Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC (June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada. Carol Shields won the 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction for her 1997 novel Larry's Party. She wrote the biography entitled Jane Austen, which won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction in April 2002, an award accepted by her daughter Meg on her behalf in Toronto, Ontario, on April 22, 2002. In 2020, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction was announced as a new literary award to honour writing by Canadian and American women.[8] ^ Deborah Dundas, "New $150,000 Carol Shields fiction prize 'to shine a light on women writers'". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3599.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3599.txt