Editing Carol Shields (section)

==Early life and education==

Shields was born Carol Ann Warner in [[Oak Park, Illinois]].<ref name="NYT_Obit" /> She studied at [[Hanover College]], in Indiana,<ref name="NYT_Obit" /> where she received a BA in English in 1957, and became a member of the [[Alpha Delta Pi]] sorority.  A United Nations scholarship encouraged Shields to spend a junior year abroad 1955–1956 at the [[University of Exeter]] in England.  Shields did post-graduate work at the [[University of Ottawa]], where she received an [[Master of Arts|MA]] in 1975.

In 1955, while on British Council sponsored study week in Scotland, she met a Canadian engineering student, Donald Hugh Shields. The couple married in 1957 and moved to Canada, where they had a son and four daughters. Shields later became a Canadian citizen.<ref name="NYT_Obit" />