The Stone Diaries

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The Stone Diaries , first published by Random House of Canada in 1993, is a novel by Carol Shields. Her most famous novel, it won the 1993 Governor General's Award for English language fiction in Canada and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the United States, the only novel ever to win both awards. An American-born naturalized Canadian, Shields was eligible to win both awards.

The book chronicles the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose fundamental humanity is depicted lovingly by Shields, a writer who was widely regarded for her ability to make even the most ordinary of characters compelling.

The book's title may have been inspired by Pat Lowther's poetry collection A Stone Diary (1977). Lowther's tragic murder in 1975 was the inspiration for Shields' earlier novel Swann: A Mystery (1987).

Preceded by:
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx		 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1995		 Succeeded by:
Independence Day
by Richard Ford
Preceded by:
The English Patient		 Governor General's Award for English language fiction recipient
1993
 Succeeded by:
A Discovery of Strangers


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