Wood said she initiated her own study of the habits of naturally fast readers after watching a professor flip through her master's thesis at surprisingly high speed before asking her questions that, she said, indicated perfect comprehension. The couple had one biological daughter, Carol Wood Davis Evans of Tucson, AZ and an adopted daughter, Anna Wood North. in business from the University of Utah in 1929. Doug Wood grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and earned a B.A. and Ellen Sutton (Goddard) Wood – and student body president at the University of Utah. On June 12, 1929, she married Myron Douglas "Doug" Wood (1903–1987), son of William Wood Jr. in English from the University of Utah in 1929 - later pursuing a master's degree in speech. Background Įvelyn Nielsen, the daughter of Elias and Rose (Stirland) Nielsen, was born in Logan, Utah, in 1909 and grew up in Ogden. It eventually had 150 outlets in the US, 30 in Canada, and others worldwide. The system was taught in rented offices dubbed "institutes" as Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics, a business Wood co-founded with her husband, Doug Wood. She created and marketed a system said to increase a reader's speed (over the average reading rate of 250 to 300 words a minute)īy a factor of three to ten times or more, while preserving and even improving comprehension.
Evelyn Nielsen Wood (Janu– August 26, 1995) was an American educator and businessperson, widely known for popularizing speed reading, although she preferred the phrase "dynamic reading".
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