Remembering Carol

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields was born on this day in 1935.

Though strongly identified as a Canadian author, Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She moved to Canada in 1957 after marrying Donald Hugh Shields, a Canadian engineer. The couple had a son and four daughters and Shields later became a citizen of Canada.

Shields is best known as the author of The Stone Diaries (1993)