La Vergne RosowLa Vergne Rosow is founder of the experimental Beaumont Literacy Program in California and an adjunct teacher education faculty member at the University of Southern California. Author of In Forsaken Hands: How Theory Empowers Literacy (einemann, 1995) and Light 'n Lively Reads for ESL, Adult, and Teen Readers: A Thematic Bibliography (Libraries Unlimited, 1996), she has studied adult literacy issues in the United States, China, New Zealand, and Australia. Read More Read Less