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| carol shields obituary | Carol Ann Shields CC OM FRSC (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – J) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. |
| carol shields daughter | Born Carol Ann Warner, June 2, 1935, in Oak Park, IL; died of breast cancer, J, in Victoria, BC, Canada. |
| carol shields husband | Carol Shields was an American-born Canadian author whose work explores the lives of ordinary people. |
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- Carol Shields was an American-born Canadian author whose work explores the lives of ordinary people.
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Carol Shields
Carol Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1935, and grew up in a house at 700 S. Kenilworth Avenue. “I attended Nathaniel Hawthorne School and Ralph Waldo Emerson School,” Shields said in a May 23, 1988 interview with the Academy of Achievement. “I knew the schools were named after writers — both were male writers, both were dead. I wondered if there were any female writers, live female writers. Perhaps it was then that I started to question the dominance of males in our lives.”
Shields was the youngest of three children. Her mother worked as a school teacher, her father in a downtown office. In that same interview, Shields said she wrote as a child, but didn’t imagine that as her calling. “I felt like wanting to be a movie star,” she said.
During those childhood and adolescent years in Oak Park, Shields did write. “I did the class poem and the class play,” she said. “There’s always
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Carol Shields biography, with many photographs
- Canadian–American novelist Carol Shields wrote several acclaimed works over the course of a career that cancer prematurely ended in 2003.
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- Carol Shields was an American-born Canadian author whose work explores the lives of ordinary people.