Articles by Ann Shields

The spoken word takes center stage when Ojai’s second annual storytelling festival, “Village of Tales,” comes to town May 4 to 6. Read more

As the baseball season gets under way, sports fans can read insiders’ accounts of the team that won nine National League pennants and five World Series championships in Steve Delsohn’s latest oral history, “True Blue: The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Told by the Men Who Lived It” (William Morrow, $24). Read more

Say you are an only child, born under the astrological sign of Libra and in the year of the goat. Read more

Lawyer Frances Khirallah Noble left her firm in 1991 after many years practicing law, because she felt a deep calling to join the literary world. Read more

Paula Danziger wanted to be a teacher, a writer or a stand-up comic. Read more

When Dale Salwak returned to his hometown of Amherst, Mass., after a 35-year absence, he stood in front of the house his father built and considered the history that triggered his book, “Faith in the Family: Honoring and Strengthening Home and Spirit” (New World Library, $14.95.) Read more

If you are one of the estimated 23 million Americans taking care of family members 50 or older, you may want to check out Jacqueline Marcell’s “Elder Rage–or Take my Father . Read more

Ask Cynthia Daddona what her new book is about and you might get a series of one-liners. Read more

First-time novelists usually find the path to publishing a tortuous one, unless they are willing to take an unconventional route. Read more