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Direct linkMiller, Jane – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
A consideration of how reading may change in retirement and old age, demonstrated in relation to five books by women.
Descriptors: Older Adults, Retirement, Reading Habits, Recreational Reading
Download full textClark, Christina; Lant, Fay – National Literacy Trust, 2019
This report uses data from the National Literacy Trust's 2019 Annual Literacy Survey and the Great School Library Campaign to determine how many schools in the UK have had a writer visit in the last year, their reasons for organising the visit, and the relationship the visit had with children and young people's engagement with reading and writing.…
Descriptors: Authors, Writing Attitudes, Reading Attitudes, Children
Lester, Julius – Horn Book Magazine, 1984
An author and teacher offers a memoir of his experiences with reading and writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Early Experience, Literature Appreciation
Lamme, Linda – Elementary English, 1974
The habit of reading books by authors one has read previously is a fairly widespread one. (JH)
Descriptors: Authors, Grade 5, Interest Research, Library Material Selection
Cote, Margaret – CEA Forum, 1982
Presents findings of a survey of undergraduate reading preferences. Notes that only female science and nonscience majors read significant amounts of writing by women and that much of this reading is done outside of class. (MM)
Descriptors: Authors, College Students, Females, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRedmond, Judith K. – English Journal, 1982
Offers reasons why popular literature, such as the work of Judy Blume, and the literary "classics" do not keep adolescents interested in literature and reading. Suggests several authors and books that are especially suited to the reading needs of young adults. (RL)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Authors, Literary Styles
Painter, Helen W., Ed. – 1971
This book, which contains selected papers given at the 1970 International Reading Association convention, is aimed at people who are looking for challenging material pertaining to literature for children and young people. It is divided into two sections. The first part--Qualities of Literature, Readers, and Writers in Action--contains a…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Conference Reports
Painter, Helen W., Ed. – 1971
This book, which contains selected papers given at the 1970 International Reading Association convention, is aimed at people who are looking for challenging material pertaining to literature for children and young people. It is divided into two sections. The first part--Qualities of Literature, Readers, and Writers in Action--contains a…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Conference Reports
Peer reviewedReed, Arthea, Ed. – The ALAN Review, 1987
Focusing on adolescent literature, this issue highlights the role of historian, writer, teacher, and reader in fact, fiction, and history. The following essays are included: "Doing the Literacy Tango" (J. L. Collier); "Biography and Books of James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier" (J. Bugniazet); "Fact, Fiction and History: The Role of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Fiction, History
