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Adora Svitak – Why you should listen to her
A voracious reader from age three, Adora Svitak’s first
serious foray into writing — at age five — was limited only
by her handwriting and spelling. (Her astonishing verbal
abilities already matched that of young adults over twice her
age.) As her official bio says, her breakthrough would soon
come “in the form of a used Dell laptop her mother bought
her.” At age seven, she typed out over 250,000 words —
poetry, short stories, observations about the world — in a
single year.
Svitak has since fashioned her beyond-her-years wordsmithing
into an inspiring campaign for literacy — speaking across
the country to both adults and kids. She is author of Flying
Fingers, a book on learning.