WORKS

POETRY

Coming to Canada. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992.

Intersect. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1974.

Others. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1972.

OTHER WORKS

The Collected Stories. Toronto: Random House, 2004.

Shields, Carol and Marjorie Anderson, eds. Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told. Toronto: Vintage, 2003.

Thirteen Hands and Other Plays. Toronto: Vintage, 2002.

Unless. Toronto: Random House, 2002.

Shields, Carol and Marjorie Anderson, eds. Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told. Toronto: Vintage, 2001.

Jane Austen. New York: Viking, 2001.

Dressing Up for the Carnival. Toronto: Random House, 2000.

Shields, Carol, ed. Penelope’s Way, by Blanche Howard. Regina: Coteau Books, 2000.

Anniversary. with Dave Williamson. Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing, 1998.

Larry’s Party. London: Fourth Estate, 1997.

Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families. with Catherine Shields. Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing, 1995.

Our People: A Previously Unpublished Short Story. Ottawa: Food for Thought Book Store, 1994.

The Stone Diaries. Toronto: Random House, 1993.

The Republic of Love. Toronto: Random House, 1992.

A Celibate Season. with Blanche Howard. New York: Penguin, 1991.

The Orange Fish. Toronto: Random House, 1989.

Departures and Arrivals. Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing, 1988.

Swann. Toronto: Random House, 1987.

Various Miracles. Toronto: Vintage, 1985.

A Fairly Conventional Woman. Toronto: Macmillan, 1982.

Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition. Toronto: Vintage, 1982.

The Box Garden. Toronto: Totem, 1977.

Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1977.

Small Ceremonies. Toronto: Mc-Graw-Hill, Ryerson, 1976.
CRITICISM

Hammill, Faye. “‘My Own Life Will Never Be Enough for Me’: Carol Shields as Biographer.” American Review of Canadian Studies 32.1 (2002): 143-148.

Dvorak, Marta. “Carol Shields and the Poetics of the Quotidian.” Journal of the Short Story in English 38 (2002): 57-71.

Hollenberg, Donna Krolik. “An Interview with Carol Shields.” Contemporary Literature 39.3 (1998): 339-355.

Ricci, Nino. “A Tribute to Carol Shields.” Brick 69 (2002): 170-173.

Thompson, Kent. “Reticence in Carol Shields.” Room of One’s Own 13.1/2 (1989): 69-76.

Wachtel, Eleanor. “Interview with Carol Shields.” Room of One’s Own 13.1/2 (1989): 5-45.
BIOGRAPHY
Carol Shields was born in Illinois in 1935. She studied in England, and received an MA from the University of Ottawa. She taught at the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Manitoba. She is most recognized for her fiction: Stone Diaries was awarded the Governor General's Award for fiction, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Critics Circle Award, and the Prix de Lire. Larry's Party won the Orange Prize for fiction. Her critical study and biography Jane Austen won the $25,000 Charles Taylor prize for literary non-fiction in 2002. She died of cancer in 2003.

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