1. Dolly Parton's father had never learned to read or write, limiting his employment opportunities and causing the family to live in poverty.
2. In 1995, Dolly Parton launched Dolly's Imagination Library, a program aimed at improving literacy by providing free books to children.
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As a child, the famous singer and entertainer Dolly Parton witnessed the effects of illiteracy firsthand. Her father had never learned to read or write, severely limiting his employment opportunities. Though he worked most of his life, his earnings were so low that the family lived in poverty. Her father's experience directly informed Parton's future charity work in literacy. In 1995, she launched a remarkable program called Dolly's Imagination Library. Its aim was to improve literacy by providing free books to children. Imagination Library has now expanded throughout the United States, and Parton, who has won nine Grammy Awards for her music, is known to many of the recipients as simply "the book lady."
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