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Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on Februar y 7\, 1867. One hundred and fifty four years ago.
\nThis book is the first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder\, the be loved author of the Little House on the Prairie books.
\nMillions of readers of "Little House on the Prairie" believe they know Laura Ingalls& mdash\;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.
\nNow\, dra wing on unpublished manuscripts\, letters\, diaries\, and land and financi al records\, Caroline Fraser&mdash\;the editor of the Library of America e dition of the Little House series&mdash\;masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder&rsquo\;s biography. \;
\nBased on her Pultizer Prize-winn ing biography\, Fraser demonstrates how Wilder became an icon of the front ier experience and explores the harsh realities of Wilder&rsquo\;s life an d the myths she wove about them. \;
\nAuthor\, Caroline Fraser i s the editor of the Library of America edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder&rsq uo\;s Little House books and the author of three works of nonfiction&mdash \; "God&rsquo\;s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church" (Metropolitan\, 1999)\, "Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution" (Metropolitan\, 2009)\, and "Prairie Fires: The A merican Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder" (Metropolitan\, 2017). One of the New York Times&rsquo\; Ten Best Books of the Year\, "Prairie Fires" won th e 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Critics Circle A ward for Biography. It was also the winner of BIO International&rsquo\;s 2 018 \; Plutarch Award and the finalist for the Mark Lynton History Pri ze\, given by the Columbia Journalism School. Fraser has given talks on Wi lder and other topics to groups large and small\, at schools\, public libr aries\, conferences\, and universities. Her writing has appeared in The Ne w York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, the Los Angeles T imes Book Review\, and the London Review of Books\, among other publicatio ns. She holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Harvard Univ ersity and lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico.
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