DEANNE MILAN SPEARS received a BA and an MA in comparative literature from the
University of Southern California. She has also done postgraduate work at San Francisco State
University. Since 1968, she has been a full-time instructor in the English Department of City
College of San Francisco, where she teaches a variety of courses in composition and reading. In
her leisure time, she is most fond of reading, but secondary interests include the Arts and Crafts
architectural movement, cooking, seeking out good inexpensive restaurants in San Francisco,
and exploring the World Wide Web. In 1997 she married a fellow English teacher, David
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The Author, Deanne Spears, with McGraw-Hill editor, Sarah Touborg, at the College Reading
and Learning Association |
2004 McGraw-Hill Higher Education