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"The Stone Diaries" follows the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett, "a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence and medium-sized ego and average good luck Among her fans was the acclaimed fiction writer Alice Munro, who sent a letter after "Small Ceremonies" came out and later became a friend Shields died Wednesday night in Victoria, British Columbia, of complications from breast cancer that was first diagnosed almost five years ago, said a statement from her publisher, Random House Shields explored courtship, marriage, family and women's roles in society " Author of more than a dozen books, she was best known for "The Stone Diaries," winner in 1995 of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle award and Canada's Governor General's Literary Award " Most American readers only learned about her after "The Stone Diaries," but Shields had long been popular in Canada "It was a jobette, really," she would recall Her mother was a schoolteacher, her father managed a candy factory A native of Oak Park, Ill Her characters often were creative people, such as the 40-year-old woman in "Happenstance" who discovers "she is an artist, and nothing in her life has prepared her for that knowledge I became the Mother who Typed Carol majored in English at Hanover College, and soon after married Donald Shields, a civil engineer Artistic from an early age, Shields in 1965 submitted a poem that won first prize in a young writers' competition "I've been witness to this huge change for women in the second half of the 20th century," Shields said My own life will never be enough for me "Unless," a novel about a Canadian writer whose eldest daughter becomes a street person, came out in 2002 " Shields was born Carol Warner in 1935, the youngest of three children " Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, she had spoken openly about her illness " Shields raised her kids, continued to write and even managed to work as an editor with a small literary journal More than 700,000 copies are in print " From her birth on a kitchen floor in Canada to her retirement in Florida, Daisy lives through much of the 20th century, enduring childhood tragedy and a tragic first marriage, raising three children and emerging late in life as a popular garden columnist "They say you write the same novel over and over and the idea of women being fully human has always been a preoccupation Like millions of housewives, she was influenced by "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Friedan's famous call for women to broaden their lives Shields also wrote short stories, plays and a short biography of Jane Austen for the acclaimed Penguin Lives series " Shields was so beloved among fellow writers that they didn't wait for her to die to pay tribute "I've always loved language "I worked in a spare room upstairs She was 68 " Shields herself was creative with storytelling and style In "Swann," her personal favorite, the final chapter is structured like a film script It's a congenital condition, my only, only disease in an otherwise lucky life , Shields was a naturalized Canadian with dual citizenship, referring to herself as having "a foot on either side of the border At an April 2002 event in Toronto that Shields was too ill to attend, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood and others read from her work and praised her as a person She continued writing despite her illness, and was a finalist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, last year for "Unless " Shields was 40 upon the publication of her first novel, "Small Ceremonies," which included an admittedly personal self-description: "I am a watcher "It's unusual to hear writers say such wonderful things about each other "It was very moving," Shields later said in a phone interview with The Associated Press Pulitzer-Prize Novelist Shields Dies Jul 17, 8:54 AM EST Carol Shields, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote with wit and wonder about love, family and finding one's place in modern times, has died after a long battle with breast cancer "A Celibate Season," a novel of letters exchanged between a separated married couple, was co-authored with Blanche Howard "I was always the girl at school who always did the class play and the class poem," she said In "The Stone Diaries" she included photographs of her characters, gathering shots from museums, antique stores and a Parisian postcard market They moved to Canada and eventually had five children It generally takes a string of failures before studios and production companies hunt for scapegoats It's part of the business " Studios generally roll with the punches, hoping hits offset flops " With $20 million to $22 million in marketing costs on top of the production budget, Sony and Revolution spent about $75 million on "Gigli That rumor mill, compounded by "Gigli's" failure, also might bode ill for Lopez and Affleck's second collaboration, next year's romance "Jersey Girl Losing big, it seems, is just part of the game called show business Brest, who did not return phone calls seeking comment, is a choosy director who has made just five movies since his Hollywood debut with =/celebs/celeb 8 million â€â€? a pittance for a high-profile movie with a $54 million price tag Not everything can work," said Revolution partner Tom Sherak aspx?m=36603 class="art">The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," and =/celebs/celeb aspx?m=115756 class="art">The Fisher King" and "=/movies/movie aspx?c=236652 class="art">Martin Brest, who also served as co-producer and had the last word on the movie's final cut " "The one person who may have a hard time with their next project would be Martin Brest," said Chris Gardner, who covers the movie business for the trade paper The Hollywood Reporter If anyone pays the price it likely will be writer-director =/celebs/celeb aspx?m=250 class="art">Spider-Man A hit like "Beverly Hills Cop" has a long shelf life in Hollywood "Gigli's" rotten reception and the bad blood between the director and Roth 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