Editing Carol Shields (section)

==Death and legacy==
Shields died in 2003 of breast cancer at age 68 in Victoria.<ref name="NYT_Obit">{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/obituaries/18SHIE.html| title = Carol Shields, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist, Dies at 68| first = Christopher 
| last = Lehmann-Haupt|work=The New York Times| date = July 18, 2003}}</ref><ref>Barbara Ellen, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/28/fiction.carolshields "Human Shields"]. ''[[The Guardian]]'', April 28, 2002.</ref>

Following her death, six of her short stories were adapted by [[Shaftesbury Films]] into the dramatic anthology series ''[[The Shields Stories]]''.  Her earlier short story collections were republished as ''Collected Stories of Carol Shields'' in 2005. Films based on Carol Shields's novels include ''[[Swann (film)|Swann]]'' (1996) and ''[[The Republic of Love]]'' (2003). Her final novel, ''Unless'', was adapted as a play in 2016 by Alan Gilsenan.<ref>Julie Crawford, [https://www.nsnews.com/entertainment/film/family-mystery-at-the-heart-of-carol-shields-final-novel-1.2365205 "Family mystery at the heart of Carol Shields' final novel"]. ''North Shore News'', October 14, 2016.</ref>

Shields' eldest daughter, [[Anne Giardini]], is also a writer. Giardini has contributed to the ''[[National Post]]'' as a columnist, and has published her first novel, ''The Sad Truth About Happiness''. Anne's second novel, ''Advice for Italian Boys'', was published in 2009.<ref>Marsha Lederman, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/daughter-of-carol-shields-reflects-on-her-own-literary-awakening/article22975681/ "Daughter of Carol Shields reflects on her own literary awakening"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 13, 2015.</ref> Giardini and her son, Nicholas, edited a book of Shields' thoughts and advice on writing, ''Startle and Illuminate'', published in 2016.<ref>Marsha Lederman, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/collection-of-carol-shieldss-advice-illuminates-the-writing-life/article29916816/ "Collection of Carol Shields's advice illuminates the writing life"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 6, 2016.</ref>

Shields' youngest daughter, Sara Cassidy, has published many children's books and young adult novels, including ''Slick'' (2010), ''Windfall'' (2011), A Boy Named Queen (2016), and Nevers (2019), which was nominated for the [[Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]] for young people's literature.

In 2020, the [[Carol Shields Prize for Fiction]] was announced as a new literary award to honor writing by Canadian and American women and non-binary authors.<ref>Deborah Dundas, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2020/02/07/new-150000-carol-shields-fiction-prize-will-honour-female-writers.html "New $150,000 Carol Shields fiction prize 'to shine a light on women writers'"]. ''[[Toronto Star]]'', February 7, 2020.</ref>

In 2022, Shields was posthumously inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame for her contributions as an author.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.carol-shields.com/dates.html | title=Carol Shields, significant dates }}</ref>