Carol Shields — novelist and short‑story writer (1935–2003) Carol Shields Carol Shields (1935–2003) was an American‑born Canadian novelist and short‑story writer best known for The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She published no…
Colleen McCullough Australian novelist (1937–2015), former medical researcher and bestselling author of The Thorn Birds and the Masters of Rome historical series, noted for meticulous research and po…
