Gerald Graff's Disliking Books At An Early Age

“Disliking Books at an Early Age” by Gerald Graff is about a story of his education. Graff is currently a professor of English and education at Illinois University at Chicago. Graff has also received his BA in English from the University of Chicago and PhD in English and American literature from Stanford University. This story is about the authors back round of education and its impact on his career
The author begins to tell the story through his childhood and how disliking books of books give him an advantage to being a literature teacher. Graff explains how growing up it was extremely difficult to study and achieve without other students putting him down. Growing up a Jew, he was scared to be caught reading because he feared he would be