Description
Prairie Fires traces the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder from childhood roots to the adult world that shaped her most enduring stories. Following Laura alongside her parents, Caroline and Charles Ingalls, and later her husband Almanzo and daughter Rose, this meticulously researched biography reveals how hardship, ambition, and reinvention braided together on the American frontier. Fraser illuminates the emotional and practical forces behind Wilder’s writing, including the tensions and transformations that accompanied her rise to literary fame. With vivid narrative craft and a historian’s eye for detail, this book explores themes of family, resilience, memory, and the complicated relationship between lived experience and the stories we tell.
Available Editions
paperback
Thorndike Press
Published Jan 1, 2019
ISBN: 9781432868208
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser.