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Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf
Maryanne Wolf is a professor of child development at Tufts University, where she is also the director of the Center for Reading and Language Research. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her latest book Reader, Come Home is forthcoming from HarperCollins.


What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do To Your Brain?

On Neurochemistry, Lucia Berlin, and the Dangers of Empathy Loss
August 8, 2018  By Maryanne Wolf
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