Comments on: Judi Clark, Editor http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com We Love to Read! Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: MFadmin http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/review-team/judi-clark-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-43 MFadmin Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:32:25 +0000 http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/?page_id=880#comment-43 Thanks, Donald! I have corrected the information on this page: <a href="http://www.mostlyfiction.com/contemp/shields.htm" rel="nofollow">Review of UNLESS by Carol Shields</a> Thanks, Donald!

I have corrected the information on this page:
Review of UNLESS by Carol Shields

]]> By: donaldhshields http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/review-team/judi-clark-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-42 donaldhshields Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:00:15 +0000 http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/?page_id=880#comment-42 Hi: I would like to correct some of the biographical information on my late wife, the writer <a href="http://mostlyfiction.com/contemp/shields.htm" rel="nofollow">Carol Shields</a>. Here goes (corrections in CAPS) : Carol Shields, born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1935, studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and received an MA from the University of Ottawa. At age 22, she married Donald Shields and moved to Canada, where SHE LIVED THE REST OF HER LIFE. She is the mother of five now grown children. Shields has been a professor at the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia, and DELETE 'HAS' taught at the University of Manitoba for 15 years. In 1996, she became the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. She is a novelist, poet, DELETE 'AND' playwright, and critic INSERT PERIOD. DELETE 'AND', CAROL SHIELDS is the recipient of FIFTEEN honorary doctorates from Universities in Canada and the United States, and was awarded Orders of Canada in 1999 AND 2002. Carol Shields is perhaps best known for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. The Stone Diaries also won Canada's Governor General Award for Fiction, AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. THE STONE DIARIES was nominated for the 1993 Booker Prize. Additionally, it was named one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly, and a Notable Book by the New York Times Book Review. Her novel, Larry's Party, was the winner of the Orange Prize and The New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize and DELETE 'IS NOMINATED' the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest literary prize. Larry's Party was also adapted as a musical by Richard Ouzounian and Marek Norman, and premiered at Canadian Stage in January 2001. Most of her latest novel Unless was written in seven months when Shields "had energy". In 1999, she was diagnosed with breast cancer; she had a mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy, the THE CANCER CAME BACK and SHE died of complications on July 16, 2003 at the age of 68. UNLESS WAS MADE INTO A STAGE PLAY BY CAROL AND HER DAUGHTER SARA. IT WAS PERFORMED IN THE MAJOR CITIES OF CANADA IN 2005. Hi: I would like to correct some of the biographical information on my late wife, the writer Carol Shields. Here goes (corrections in CAPS) :
Carol Shields, born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1935, studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and received an MA from the University of Ottawa. At age 22, she married Donald Shields and moved to Canada, where SHE LIVED THE REST OF HER LIFE. She is the mother of five now grown children.
Shields has been a professor at the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia, and DELETE ‘HAS’ taught at the University of Manitoba for 15 years. In 1996, she became the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. She is a novelist, poet, DELETE ‘AND’ playwright, and critic INSERT PERIOD. DELETE ‘AND’, CAROL SHIELDS is the recipient of FIFTEEN honorary doctorates from Universities in Canada and the United States, and was awarded Orders of Canada in 1999 AND 2002.
Carol Shields is perhaps best known for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. The Stone Diaries also won Canada’s Governor General Award for Fiction, AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. THE STONE DIARIES was nominated for the 1993 Booker Prize. Additionally, it was named one of the best books of the year by Publisher’s Weekly, and a Notable Book by the New York Times Book Review.
Her novel, Larry’s Party, was the winner of the Orange Prize and The New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize and DELETE ‘IS NOMINATED’ the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize. Larry’s Party was also adapted as a musical by Richard Ouzounian and Marek Norman, and premiered at Canadian Stage in January 2001.
Most of her latest novel Unless was written in seven months when Shields “had energy”. In 1999, she was diagnosed with breast cancer; she had a mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy, the THE CANCER CAME BACK and SHE died of complications on July 16, 2003 at the age of 68. UNLESS WAS MADE INTO A STAGE PLAY BY CAROL AND HER DAUGHTER SARA. IT WAS PERFORMED IN THE MAJOR CITIES OF CANADA IN 2005.

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