The struggle to read

Thursday evening is the 4th Annual East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame awards dinner, sponsored by the Knox County Friends of Literacy. The event raises funds for Friends of Literacy, a nonprofit organization established in 1991 to provide support to the more than 10 thousand Knox County residents who cannot read. Tonight, four local writers will be inducted into the Hall of Fame, but the evening's keynote speaker is New York Times best-selling women's fiction author Debbie Macomber. Macomber is dyslexic and she tells WUOT's Chrissy Keuper her disability has a lot to do with the way she approaches her work...

Posted by mpowell7 at October 4, 2007 06:35 AM | Links to this post
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