A Wilder Rose

In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane, world traveler, journalist, highly paid magazine writer, returned from an Albanian sojourn to her parents' Ozark farm. Almanzo was 71, Laura 61, and Rose felt obliged to stay and help. Then came the Crash. Rose's investments vanished, the magazine market dried up. That's when Laura wrote "Pioneer Girl," her story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the Kansas prairie, and by the shores of Silver Lake. The rest is literary history. But it isn't the...
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In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane, world traveler, journalist, highly paid magazine writer, returned from an Albanian sojourn to her parents' Ozark farm. Almanzo was 71, Laura 61, and Rose felt obliged to stay and help. Then came the Crash. Rose's investments vanished, the magazine market dried up. That's when Laura wrote "Pioneer Girl," her story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the Kansas prairie, and by the shores of Silver Lake. The rest is literary history. But it isn't the history we thought we knew. Based on the unpublished diaries of Rose Wilder Lane and other documentary evidence, A Wilder Rose tells the true story of the often strained collaboration that produced the Little House books--a collaboration that Rose and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, concealed from their agent, editors, reviewers, and readers. Acclaimed author Susan Wittig Albert follows the clues that take us straight to the heart of this fascinating literary mystery.