"Professor Graff is among the most influential social historians of our time and has been a trailblazer within the growing field of literacy studies for years. Given his amazing intellectual scope and experience, his newest book should draw attention to critical issues in international educational systems. I would encourage anyone interested in literary practices and education to read this book." -Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, Professor of History, University of Iceland; author of Wasteland with Words; Minor History and Microhistory "Harvey Graff is unquestionably the most important historian of literacy in our lifetime. His work is consistently original, provocative, and groundbreaking. In Searching for Literacy, Graff explores the origins of a field, its urgent concerns, questions, and contributors. This is a book for anyone interested in understanding what Graff has called the continuities and contradictions of literacy--what these are, who has engaged them, and what fundamental lessons remain to be learned." -John Duffy, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, USA; author of Writing from these Roots: Literacy in A Hmong-American Community "The Literary Myth does what first-class scholarly books should do: it provides a probing and well-documented argument about the issue at hand, but it also educates the reader about the topic more generally.

In the close to thirty years since I discovered The Literacy Myth, . every single one of Harvey's books and articles . has taught me things I didn't know and helped me think differently or more broadly." -Mike Rose, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, University of California, USA; author of Lives on the Boundary and The Mind at Work ; Conference on College Composition and Communications 2017, Tribute to Harvey J. Graff "In Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies , Harvey J. Graff offers a timely and provocative analysis of how literacy is persistently deployed without documentation or definition. Tracing the development of literacy studies across disciplines and fields, Graff urges educators and scholars to resist literacy myths and connect with the historical insights that ground this area of study." -Patrick Berry, Syracuse University, USA; author of Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison "A necessary, magnificent book, written by America's greatest specialist in the history of literacy.

Since 1979 Harvey Graff has been a world authority on literacy studies, a discipline in the History of Culture that is enriched by this new book. A useful work for the education and culture sector, rigorous and interdisciplinary: it addresses literacy in various fields of knowledge." -Diego Moldes, Madrid, Spain; writer, film historian, student of print and literacy in European history.