| | 15,541 (18,317) | 372 | 1,255 |  (3.68) | 73 | 0 | Carol Shields is a writer and critic who was born on June 2, 1935 in Chicago and grew up in Illinois. Shields resided in Canada, where she was the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, and a professor at the University of Manitoba. Shields's first novel, Small Ceremonies, was published the week of her 40th birthday. Her other works of fiction include The Orange Fish, Larry's Party, Various Miracles, and The Stone Diaries, which received the Governor's General Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shields has also been awarded the Canadian Bookseller's Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the CBC Prize for Drama. She died on July 16, 2003. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Stone Diaries … (more) |
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Carol Shields has 1 past event. (show) Mingei Book Club Join us for the Museum’s quarterly book club and enjoy stimulating dialogue around a work of fiction thematically connected to one of the Museum’s current exhibitions. This quarter’s book club will discuss The Wife’s Story from Pulitzer Prize winning author Carol Shield’s two novel book, Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition. This story explores an intimate portrait of a marriage through the eyes of the wife, Brenda Bowman, who is also a quilter. Dr. Edith Frampton from SDSU will led the discussion on Shield’s novel as it relates to themes presented in the Museum’s current display of quilts from its Pat L. Nickols American Quilts Collection.
$5 members, students and faculty / $8 non-members
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