“Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder” A biography by Caroline Fraser But separating the real Laura Ingalls from the character crafted by Wilder in nine beloved books for ...

The 90 years of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life (1867-1957) encompassed the Indian Wars and the Dust Bowl, desperate poverty and near-starvation, and grueling wagon travel across difficult terrain.

I grew up in the city, but I dreamed of covered wagons. Like countless kids, I read and reread the “Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder while growing up, savoring the details of ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having ... according to a 2007 biography of Wilder by Pamela Smith Hill. Yet Harper’s decision in 1953 to change “people” to “settlers” in ...

If only Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" books ... Fraser brings a learned hand to this substantial biography of Wilder, learned and substantial though also light on its feet, washed ...

PAMELA SMITH HILL, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Biography": Yes, exactly. What a lot of people don't understand about Laura Ingalls Wilder is that she actually started her professional writing ...

Both of those target audiences describe Hill, a Portland, Ore., author also wrote the 2007 biography, "Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life," for the SDSHSP. For "Pioneer Girl," Hill will ...

Just over a century ago, Rose Wilder Lane wrote to her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder ... and a Pulitzer Prize–winning biography. But the writer’s name surfaced in the news earlier this summer ...

one is a mini-biography of Charles Ingalls and one is about Indian Territory. “It’s kind of like reading an encyclopedia on Laura Ingalls Wilder,” says Hill, whose book “Laura Ingalls ...

“Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser, offers the first comprehensive, historical biography of Wilder, drawn from unpublished manuscripts ...

A fascinating new biography of Wilder, Caroline Fraser’s “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder” (Metropolitan Books, $35), takes a close look at the author’s life ...