Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question 'How do we learn to read and write?' This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.

MARYANNE WOLF is a professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, where she holds the John DiBiaggio Chair of Citizenship and Public Service, and is the director of the Center for Reading and Language Research. A former Fulbright Fellow, she has received numerous awards for her distinguished teaching and research, including from the American Psychological Association, International Dyslexia Association, and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.