![]() ![]() The team took Wilder's original unpublished memoir, as well as her papers and letters, and ran her text alongside historical context, census data, newspapers, maps, photographs, drawings, backstories about the fate of real characters and fascinating annotations by the different researchers. That rich and compelling book was the result of several years work by researchers at the South Dakota Historical Society, headed up by editor Pamela Smith Hill. The problem for anyone covering the Wilder field after 2014's masterful Pioneer Girl : The Annotated Autobiography, is comparison with that seminal text. In recent years, there has been an increasing body of scholarship on the life and work of both Wilder and her only child, Rose Wilder Lane. This year is the 150th anniversary of Wilder's birth, and Caroline Fraser's book Prairie Fi res: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, described as the "first comprehensive historical biography" of her, has just been published. What has always been a lot more amorphous about her work is where the lines between memoir and historical fiction meet. ![]() Wilder was born in 1867 and died in 1957, and her Little House books have now sold millions of copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. ![]() Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real person, but the famous children's books that bear her name are not a factual account of her American pioneer childhood. ![]()
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