TIME(@TIME):TIME’s new cover: Dolly Parton, the beloved country-music superstar, died in Nashville at 80. Known for writing about the lives of working-class people in more than 3,000 recorded songs and later giving away nearly 300 million books to children around the world, Parton’s life was a true Cinderella story.

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TIME’s new cover: Dolly Parton, the beloved country-music superstar, died in Nashville at 80. Known for writing about the lives of working-class people in more than 3,000 recorded songs and later giving away nearly 300 million books to children around the world, Parton’s life was a true Cinderella story.