Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder by John E. Miller (.ePUB)
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend by John E. Miller
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Overview: Legends have attached themselves to Laura Ingalls Wilder, beloved author of the eight Little House novels, but what are the facts? Fans are familiar with her early pioneer years up to her marriage, at age 19, to Almanzo Wilder. But before this biography, little has been known about her adult years. This detail-packed biography amends that. John E. Miller has availed himself of myriad primary sources–Ingalls Wilder’s unpublished autobiography, letters, her newspaper stories, and other documentary materials. Miller’s approach is to track her evolution into one of American’s most popular children’s writers, a formidable challenge, because she left behind little in the way of personal revelation. Published between 1932 and 1943, the Little House novels were immediately seized upon; strangely, Ingalls Wilder did not begin her career as a novelist until she was in her mid-60s. What happened between the adolescent years, dramatized in her novels, and the period between 1943 and 1957, when she was basking in the glow of her readers’ affection? “To write her ‘autobiographical’ novels,” Miller notes, “Wilder needed to undergo a process of becoming, which depended heavily upon the inheritance that she had received both from her family and, across the years, from the various environments in which she lived.”
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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