1. Biography of Carol Shields OumniaBenkaddour & Courtney Cels & Reema El Ghazawi
2. Bibliographical Overview Date of Birth : June 2 1935 in Oak Park Illinois. She studied at the Hanover college Indiana. She met a Canadian engineering student on a trip to Scotland and married in 1957 and moved to Canada. She has a son and four daughters. Carol Shields
3. “Particular kind of humanity” – Eleanor Wachtel In 1977, Carol was a professor at the university of Ottawa. Later on she moved to the University of British Columbia and settled in Manitoba where she wrote her major books and became an English professor at the University of Manitoba. She won eight prizes including The Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel, Pulitzer Prize, The Governor General’s Award and Nominations for the Giller Prize. She wrote a total of 10 novels, 4 short stories, 3 poems, 5 plays, 1 criticism, 1 biography and 2 anthologies. Carol’s “particular kind of humanity” is a quote that has been linked to her success.
4. Vibrant, Loved Author She won the 25 thousand dollars Charles Taylor prize for literary non fiction. “Like most fiction writers, I think the truth is in our fiction” – Carol Shields She died in Victoria, B.C July 16,2003 at the age of 68. “The foundation of her commitment to writing as a form of redemption. Redeeming the lives of lost or vanished women.” – Eleanor Wachtel
5. For more information… Visit… http://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound//factfict/ff9901.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_shields
6. Works Cited Jacobs, Heidi LM. “Shields, Carol.” nwpassages.com. Aug.1997.Web 23 Mar.2010 “Carol Shields.” Wikipedia Online. Wikipedia, 2009.web. 23 Mar.2010
