Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by Caroline Fraser
🏆 Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
🏆 Winner of the 2017 NBCC Prize for Biography
Caroline Fraser―the editor of the Library of America edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series―draws together insights from unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records in this biography of an iconic American author, whose own life story takes in so much of the story of westward expansion in the United States.
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