US EditionJosephine County Libraries to Celebrate Dolly Parton's 80th Birthday
Dolly Parton celebrates 80 years with a charity reissue featuring top artists and a revealing biography highlighting her philanthropy and private life, including a health scare and husband's death.
- On Jan. 22, 2026, Martha Ackmann published a lively biography revealing Dolly Parton's guarded persona, noting `Parton courts reporters more than they court her` and sometimes declines direct interviews.
- Born into a family of 12 children in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Parton grew up dirt poor and left for Nashville at 18, propelled by her Pentecostal faith.
- Ackmann details personal quirks such as Parton carrying a Ziploc bag, eating microwaved Häagen-Dazs with potato chips, starting her wig collection after a Max Factor outing, and rising to hits like `Jolene` and `9 to 5` following `The Porter Wagoner Show`.
- Tennessee declared January 19 `Dolly Parton Day`, and her Imagination Library mailed 264 million books by 2024, highlighting her philanthropic legacy.
- After personal trials including a mysterious health scare last year and widowhood following Carl Dean's death last year aged 82, the biography frames Parton's legacy around `decency` as she marks her 80th birthday this month.
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Happy Belated Birthday, Dolly Parton
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The private life of a public treasure: Dolly Parton's secrets, Ziploc bag hacks and a legacy of decency
As Dolly Parton celebrates her 80th birthday and a new "Dolly Parton Day," a new biography by Martha Ackmann looks back at the star's rise from poverty to philanthropy.
Dolly Parton's trademark is big wigs and breasts.
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