Journeys: Young Readers’ Letters to Authors Who Changed Their Lives

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About the Creator(s)

The Library of Congress Center for the Book promotes books, reading, literacy, and libraries, as well as the scholarly study of books. It was founded in 1977 and has established affiliate centers across the country and in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Center’s mission is carried out around the world.

Catherine Gourley served as national director of the Letters About Literature reading promotion program from 2004 to 2017. She is also an author of many nonfiction books about women’s history and the principal curriculum writer for the Story of Movies, an educational outreach program. She lives in Virginia.