We’re learning this and other Laura Ingalls Wilder revelations now because Wilder has a new book out, 85 years after she wrote it. And good luck finding a copy, by the way. “Pioneer Girl ...

For that book, I did a lot of research on the original draft of “Pioneer Girl,” and I drew from my findings in “Pioneer Girl” for the biography. I think I was one of the first biographers ...

Pioneer Girl is so thoroughly annotated that the casual ... is among those who argue that Rose did so much work on the Little House books she can be considered their ghostwriter.

The first copies of Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography will begin shipping Monday to readers who pre-ordered copies. The book will show up in stores later this month. For fans of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

In the 1930s, unknown author Laura Ingalls Wilder couldn't find a publisher for her memoir, Pioneer Girl. Instead, she and her daughter turned the stories into a series of Little House books.

Eight years ago, Pamela Smith Hill sat at a research table in the reading room of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. She overheard an archivist taking an order for a ...

The Little House books also grapple in their quiet way with deeper questions. Those themes are clear in Pioneer Girl, too. When a doctor’s wife offers to adopt Laura as a housekeeper and ...

The pin itself appears in one of the “Little House” books, but what I make of it in “Pioneer Girl” is all imaginary. It becomes what connects Rose Wilder’s family with Lee’s family.

The memoir Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote in 1930 was called Pioneer Girl, and it was intended for an adult audience. Rose edited the book, and used her own agent to send it out. No one wanted to ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder fans will be surprised, delighted and probably a little disappointed by details revealed in the book, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography," Wilder's original memoir.