Famous Canadian Women Writers

Birthdate: June 2, 1935

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Died: July 16, 2003

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Canadian novelist Carol Shields was known for capturing and highlighting domesticity in her writings. Most of her writings centred around the lives of women, the genesis of art, notions of gender, etc. Her seventh novel, The Stone Diaries, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction (1995), and was shortlisted for a Booker Prize.