ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bertha Stoller Fields started in journalism while in high school, at the Chicago Times during WWII. She then started full-time after graduation and enrolled at Northwestern University night school. After the Times was purchased by Marshal Field it became the Sun-Times; with ownership changing several times since that time.
She took time out to have three children, then through a family tragedy was left to raise them as a single parent. They are excellent human beings, well educated and successful in their career choices.
She became export manager of a machinery company in Milwaukee that helped create a trade surplus during the Johnson administration.
Ms. Fields in 1965-72 was associated with Americans Building Constitutionally a not-for-profit organization created to teach wealthy taxpayers how to set up foundations and trusts to provide financing of services for the public good.
She returned to journalism through publication of newsletters at O'Hare airport as editor, and Miami International Airport as editor and publisher.
In 1973, she became newspaper analyst for the Scripps League Newspaper chain in Santa Barbara, CA, which was later sold to the Pulitzer family. She created the Grass Roots Public Opinion Poll and covered the White House during the Reagan administration, as well as major political events. She also conducted readership surveys and marketing studies, and helped improve content and format of the newspapers in the League. She started her own company providing similar services to some 50 newspapers throughout the U.S. During this time she attended law school in Santa Barbara at night.
She has traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, the middle-east, the Soviet Union and China.
Not enjoying retirement, she became registrar at the Association for Global New Thought, when they started conferences known as the Awakened World series. It is recognized internationally for its programs teaching nonviolence.
Before beginning her book, Ms. Fields was engaged in 5 years of litigation versus her condominium board, and representing herself, prevailed over 28 attorneys. She is planning a book about that experience.
Her priority is a novel which in essence is a sequel to depict life in a planetary/continental system of government.