This book is a biography of Cora Wilson Stewart, a Rowan County, Kentucky, school superintendent who rose to prominence with the establishment of the Moonlight Schools for adults with low literacy levels in 1911. It presents the details of her Kentucky crusade against illiteracy, then examines the personal part of her life as well as her later years in the 1920s and 1930s when she worked on the national and international scale and came into conflict with the fledgling adult education movement. A bibliography contains 127 references, including interviews and unpublished manuscripts. (KC)