NELSON LAUVER

 At Age 29 He Could Not Read

At Age 32 He was Reading Scripts as a National Weatherman

Today, He Shares His Formula for Success and Overcoming Hard Times

Nelson Lauver was determined to overcome illiteracy forced upon him by Dyslexia and an educational system that chose to label him “unteachable”. Nelson had dreams for his booming radio voice but the inability to read and write was stopping him from meeting his goals. At 29 years old he sought help through an occupational rehabilitation program. Through professional and exhaustive evaluations, it was determined that as a means of compensating for his reading and writing disability, he had unknowingly fined honed his listening and speaking to extraordinary levels. The little boy who teachers had given up on was actually quite brilliant.

During rehabilitation, he purchased a simple word processor to practice his letter and sentence structure. Not knowing how and what to type, he started to “hunt and peck” short stories about himself, friends,  and the small  Pennsylvania community around him. He produced many fine short stories that soon became the basis for his first CD, “The American Storyteller”. In 1997 Nelson made a forty-mile walk from Maryland to the Library of Congress in Washington, DC to register “The American Storyteller” CD. Each mile of the trip represented one million Americans who are still functionally illiterate.

Today the “American Storyteller” has become part of a nationally syndicated radio program featuring Nelson and his gifted voice. A syndication that everybody said could not grow, let alone survive. Nelson is currently celebrating his fifth year of syndication and he is now heard on 56 stations throughout the Midwest. Reviews have compared his skills to Garrison Keillor, Charles Kuralt, and Paul Harvey and his writing to that of Mark Twain. In 2001 he released his second CD in the “American Storyteller” series.