BBC News reports that Dolly Parton launched the Imagination Library in 1995 in Sevier County, Tennessee, to honor her father who never learned to read or write. The program mails one free book monthly to children from birth to age five and expanded to the US in 2000, Canada in 2006, and the UK in 2007. A separate claim that Parton died this week at age 80 appears in the same source but is contested.