1.   Black was a born storyteller and a criminal by training and habit.

2.   A born storyteller, McCourt is charming yet bracingly honest.

3.   Cornwell is a born storyteller who works hard on her background material, and her effort pays off handsomely.

4.   He is a born storyteller who creates remarkably lively, original characters.

5.   Isabel Allende is unquestionably a born storyteller.

6.   Miss Foveaux was an unschooled and unskilled writer, but she was clearly a born storyteller.

7.   Schiavelli is a born storyteller, skilled at portraying other people.

8.   Thomas is a born storyteller who yaps nonstop about tribal and personal history, recycling age-old legends and dishing new ones of his own invention.

9.   The performer is a born storyteller, sort of a female Sam Levinson crossed with a kinder, gentler Joan Rivers.