 She wrote the biography entitled "Jane Austen", which won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction in April 2002, an award accepted by her daughter Meg on her behalf in Toronto, Ontario, on April 22, 2002.Her last novel, "Unless", contains a passionate defense of female writers who write of 'domestic' subjects.Carol Shields wrote plays including "Departures and Arrivals" which has been performed hundreds of times by both amateur and professional theaters.