Bibliograph

Prairie fires, the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser

Type

Label

Prairie fires, the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Prairie fires

Responsibility statement

Caroline Fraser

Sub title

the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Summary

Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls, the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser, the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series, masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books

Target audience

adult

Classification