Born Carol Ann Warner within Oak Park, Illinois, she studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and a University of Ottawa, where she received an M.The.

Within 1956 while on the college exchange visit to Britaaround she met a American engineering student, Donald Hugh Shields, in Scotland. A few married inside 1957 & moved to Canadthe, where it experienced 5 tykes and Carol became a American citizen. Donald, world health organization became the prof of civil engineering, is reported to have said of their meeting & their hanker & happy marriage, "In engineering, once you've found a woman, that's it. The job's over".

Within 1973 Shields became editorial adjunct for the journal American Slavonic Papers. Within 1977, she became a prof at a University of Ottawa, where she stayed for a year. When that, she taught in the University of British Columbia and traveled around a united states. Within 1980 she settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. There, she became prof of English at the University of Manitoba. Within 1996 she became chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. Inside 2000 Shields and her married man moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where she died of cancer at age 68.

Shields is the creator of many novels & short-story collections, including A Orange Fish, Swann (published in the United Kingdom as Mary Swann), Various Miracles, Happenstance, & A Republic of Love. Her books own won a Canada Council Major Award, deuce National Magazine Awards, the 1990 Marian Engel Award, the Canadian Author's Award, and a CBC short story award. She was appointed as an officer of the Order of Canada in 1998 and was elevated to companion of the Order within 2002. Shields was too the fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Manitoba.

The Stone Diaries won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1993 Governor General's Award, the only book ever to win both awards. It was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1993 Booker Prize, and was as well known as one of a better books of the season by Publishers Weekly and a "Notable Book" by The New York Times Book Review. She won a 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction for the novel ''Larry's Party.

Her endure novel, Unless'', was nominated for the 2002 Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, a Booker Prize & a 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction. She too wrote the life story of Jane Austen.

Shields was noted for her gentle, witty however penetrating insights into person nature and severity. Her best known works examined a survives of regular humans, depicting a profound & universal humanity within potentially the virtually all average moments of her characters' exists.

Bibliography
Intersect, 1974 (short fiction) Small Ceremonies, 1976 The Box Garden, 1977 Happenstance, 1980 A Fairly Conventional Woman, 1982 Various Miracles, 1985 (short fiction) Swann, 1987 The Orange Fish, 1989 A Celibate Season, 1991 The Republic of Love, 1992 Coming to Canada, 1992 (poetry) The Stone Diaries, 1993 - Governor General's Award, Pulitzer Prize ''Larry's Party, 1997 - Winner of the Orange Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Prix de Livre Dressing Up for the Carnival, 2000 (short fiction) Jane Austen, 2001 (biography) Unless, 2002 Duet, 2003 Collected Stories, 2004 (short fiction)

Plays
Thirteen Hands Departures & Arrivals Fashion Power Guilt (by owning Catherine Shields) Non An additional Day of remembrance (by owning David Williamson) Women Waiting''