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Who reads literature? : the future of the United States as a nation of readers

Title: Who reads literature? : the future of the United States as a nation of readers / Nicholas Zill and Marianne Winglee ; foreword by Jonathan Yardley.
Author: Zill, Nicholas.
Publication: Cabin John, Md. : Seven Locks Press, [1990]

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Additional Authors

Winglee, Marianne.

Description

x, 106 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

This study, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, provides statistical support for what is generally observed about American readers: that they are predominantly, educated, non-minority middle-class women. Readers are mostly professionals, women more than men, whites more than minorities, suburbanites more than rural or city folk. Zill moves this material from commonsense observance to sociological fact. The unusual comments he makes include: self-defined fiction readers often can't name the authors they've read, compared to those who read poetry for enjoyment; part-time workers read a great deal more poetry than anyone else in the labor force. ISBN 0-932020-86-0: $9.95.

Series Statement

Report ; # 22

Uniform Title

Research Division report (National Endowment for the Arts. Research Division) ; 22.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

0932020860
9780932020864

LCCN

90033699

OCLC

ocm21329716
21329716
SCSB-1892535

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library