Dolly Parton's Literacy Legacy Built on Father's Struggle with Reading
Dolly Parton, who died at 80, credited her father's illiteracy as the driving force behind her charitable work. Her Imagination Library program has distributed over 270 million free books worldwide. She received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2022 for her contributions.
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