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Author Fraser, Caroline, author.

Title Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder / Caroline Fraser.

Imprint New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2017]
©2017

Copies

LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 E&H Kelly Main Collection  PS3545.I342 Z6455 2017    CHECK SHELVES
 King Bristol Circ Books  PS3545.I342 Z6455 2017    CHECK SHELVES
 SCPL Marion Biography  B WILDER FRA    CHECK SHELVES
 TCPL Bluefield Adlt NonFiction  BIOGRAPHY -- Writer -- WILDER    CHECK SHELVES
 TCPL Richlands Adlt NonFiction  921 WILDER    CHECK SHELVES
 TCPL Tazewell Adlt NonFiction  921 WILDER    CHECK SHELVES
 WCPL Abingdon Biography  B WILDER    CHECK SHELVES
 WCPL Hayters Books-Biography  B WILDER    CHECK SHELVES
Descript xii, 625 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-602) and index.
Contents Part I: The pioneer -- Maiden rock -- Indian summers -- Crying hard times -- God hates a coward -- Don't leave the farm, boys -- Part II: The exile -- A world made -- As a farm woman thinks -- The absent ones -- Pioneer girl -- Part III: The dream -- A ruined country -- Dusty old dust -- We are all here -- Sunshine and shadow -- There is gold in the farm.
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 Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser--the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House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. The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder's real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children's books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading - and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters. Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day. -- from dust jacket.
Note 2018 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Subject Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
1900-1999
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- United States -- Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biography.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781627792769 (hardcover)
1627792767 (hardcover)
Isn 9781627792769 53500