CLEVELAND, Ohio – A lifelong passion of reading and writing led Clothilde Ewing to be an author.

Ewing, who is originally from Greater Cleveland but who has lived in Chicago since 2004, has written a series of books about a little girl named Stella. The fourth, “Stella and Roger Are on the Move,” comes out next week.

Her path to creating the series was rooted in Northeast Ohio and wound through a creative circuit that included working for “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

Born in Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland and raised in Cleveland Heights, Ewing attended Horizon Montessori School, then Shaker Heights schools - Ludlow and Woodbury before graduating from Shaker Heights High.

“I had really, honestly, a quintessential upbringing,” she said. “I have talked to people who I met as adults who woul

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