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Pulitzer-Prize Novelist Carol Shields Dies

NPR | By Neda Ulaby
Published July 16, 2003 at 10:00 PM MDT

Author Carol Shields has died at age 68 after a long battle with breast cancer. Shields was best known for her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. NPR's Neda Ulaby has a remembrance.

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