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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Fraser, Caroline.     Subjects     Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.     Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968.     Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography     Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Women pioneers -- United States -- Biography.     Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.     Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fraser, Caroline.       by title:      Prairie fires : the ...       by call number:      921 W673f     Search the Web     Fraser, Caroline.     Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.     Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968.     Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography     Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Women pioneers -- United States -- Biography.     Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.     Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.       MARC Display

Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder / Caroline Fraser. by Fraser, Caroline. Metropolitan Books, 2017. Call #: 921 W673f Subjects Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.   Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968.   Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography   Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography   Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Women pioneers -- United States -- Biography.   Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.   Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. ISBN:  9781627792769 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  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 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. Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day."--Provided by publisher. Awards:  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2018. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Biography 921 W673f Adult books Checked out Jul 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 921 W673f Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 11, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 921 W673f Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 16, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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