SOUTH JORDAN — Shannon Hale, a friendly, home-grown Utah mother of four who writes children's books, describes herself as "sort of a hermit" and belongs to no political party, doesn't see ...

Utah author Shannon Hale discusses her children’s book, “The Princess in Black and the Prince in Pink” during Banned Books Week at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library in Salt Lake ...

In April, bestselling children’s book author Shannon Hale published book number 10 in her acclaimed Princess in Black series. For those who don’t have an elementary schooler in their lives and ...

In April, Utah author Shannon Hale—who co-writes the Princess in Black illustrated book series with her husband, Dean—responded on Twitter to 1-star Amazon reviews of the latest installment, The ...

The sticker, Shannon Hale said, was “very symbolic of my personal role as driver of that car and wielder of four children.” Now the Hales, the Utah-based co-writers of the “Princess in Black ...

Best-selling author Shannon Hale thought something was up when she looked into her audience of middle schoolers and saw only girls’ faces. Hale is the voice behind 15 children’s and young ...

Author Shannon Hale can’t help but remark on how different the University of Utah’s campus looks now, compared to when she was a student.. Today, her eldest child is a student at the U. Back ...

SHANNON HALE: Having my own elementary-age kids made me wish for a book like this one to share with them, and that inspired me to write it down. But I didn’t use any of their personal stories in it.

As a child — I mean the nerdy hyper-alert kind who spent long hours in the library getting willfully lost in words — I never ...

Acclaimed Utah author Shannon Hale blogs. A lot. And her blogs often aren't about her upcoming tour dates or how hard it was to write that day or what she's wearing. Hale gamely sticks out her tongue ...

Shannon Hale and I wrote this book out of a genuine love for each other, as a reflection of the power of friendship. We wrote it because we are mothers of children who adore cats and unicorns.

Shannon and her husband and oft-co-writer, Dean Hale, have just published a graphic novel about the woman who inspired that car bling. The book, “Diana, Princess of the Amazons” (DC Comics ...