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The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the
Little House on the Prairie books

Millions of readers of
Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls―the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser―the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series―masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books.

The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children’s books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading―and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters.

Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries,
Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day.

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“An absorbing new biography [that] deserves recognition as an essential text.... For anyone who has drifted into thinking of Wilder’s ‘Little House’ books as relics of a distant and irrelevant past, reading Prairie Fires will provide a lasting cure.... Meanwhile, ‘Little House’ devotees will appreciate the extraordinary care and energy Fraser devotes to uncovering the details of a life that has been expertly veiled by myth.”
The New York Times Book Review(front page)

“The definitive biography... Magisterial and eloquent... A rich, provocative portrait.”
―Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Impressive...
Prairie Fires could not have been published at a more propitious time in our national life.”
The New Republic

“Unforgettable... A magisterial biography, which surely must be called definitive. Richly documented (it contains 85 pages of notes), it is a compelling, beautifully written story.... One of the more interesting aspects of this wonderfully insightful book is its delineation of the fraught relationship between Wilder and her deeply disturbed, often suicidal daughter.”
―Booklist(starred review)

“A fantastic book. We’ve long understood the Little House series to be a great American story, but Caroline Fraser brings it unprecedented new context, as she masterfully chronicles the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family alongside the complicated history of our nation.
Prairie Fires represents a significant milestone in our understanding of Wilder’s life, work, and legacy.”
―Wendy McClure, author of The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

“Meticulously researched, feelingly told,
Prairie Fires is the definitive biography of a major writer who did so much to mold public perceptions of the Western frontier. Once again, Caroline Fraser has shown that she is a master of the careful art of sifting a life, finding meaning in the large and small events that shaped an iconic American figure. Prairie Fires is a magnificent contribution to the literature of the West.”
―Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West

“At last, an unsentimental examination of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s real life on the frontier. Caroline Fraser rescues Wilder from frontier myth and gives us the gritty, passionate woman who endured the harshest experiences of homesteading, loved the Great Plains, and was devastated by their ultimate ruin and loss. Elegantly written and impeccably researched,
Prairie Fires is a major contribution to environmental history and literary biography.”
―Linda Lear, author of Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature and Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

“In the twenty-first century, the tense and secret authorial partnership between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane has emerged as the most complex and fascinating psychological saga of mother-daughter collaboration in American literary history. Caroline Fraser’s deeply researched and stimulating biography analyzes their controversial relationship and places Wilder’s influential fiction in the contexts of other myths of pioneer women and the frontier.”
―Elaine Showalter, author of A Jury of Her Peers and The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

“Engrossing… Exhilarating… Lovers of the series will delight in learning about real-life counterparts to classic fictional episodes, but, as Fraser emphasizes, the true story was often much harsher. Meticulously tracing the Ingalls and Wilder families’ experiences through public records and private documents, Fraser discovers failed farm ventures and constant money problems, as well as natural disasters even more terrifying and devastating in real life than in Wilder’s writing. She also helpfully puts Wilder’s narrow world into larger historical context.”
Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Caroline Fraser is the editor of the Library of America edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books, and the author of Rewilding the World and God’s Perfect Child. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; Reprint edition (August 7, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 656 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250182484
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250182487
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches
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Caroline Fraser is the author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning biography, "Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder", which also won a National Book Critics Circle award for biography, a Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune, and BIO's Plutarch Award. Her first book, "God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church," is now available in a 20th-Anniversary Edition with a new afterword. God's Perfect Child was selected as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, and Outside magazine, among others. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Customers find the book engaging and informative about an interesting subject. They appreciate the well-researched content and contextualized history. However, some readers feel the author's political views are too openly expressed, making the writing style difficult to read.

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Customers find the book engaging and informative. They describe it as well-researched, thought-provoking, and a must-read for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The first half of the book is a little heavy on American history, but the themes resonate with today's climate.

"...It is a tale of literary effort, process, steps and missteps, interesting in itself...." Read more

"...I found that enlightening and interesting. Some people won't agree. Read this book if you are a fan of Wilder's books...." Read more

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144 customers mention "History"136 positive8 negative

Customers find the book contextualizes the history of Laura Ingalls Wilder's life. They appreciate that it explains events of the time and provides details about the Ingalls family. The author chronicles the history of Native Americans who populated Laura's childhood homes. The book is described as thorough and interesting, providing important historical information about American development.

"...Fraser also chronicles the history of the Native Americans who had populated Laura’s childhood homes, particularly the massacre by the Dakota at New..." Read more

"...The surprises of the book for me are in the details of Rose's life and politics and how she leveraged Laura's books to further her Libertarian views..." Read more

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"...Life was real, life was hard and nothing was easy. I'm so glad I bought the book." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's thorough research. They find the topics detailed and contextualized well. The book provides interesting details about the true lives of people in and associated with the Little House on the Prairie.

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"...goes deeply into the history, social studies, economics and agrarian science to explain why the Homesteading and Farmer's built this country was a..." Read more

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Customers have different views on the writing quality. Some find it thoughtful and well-researched, with a tender and empathetic tone. Others feel the writing style is difficult to read, with excessive footnotes that make it tedious.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2019
    I am one of the millions of women who grew up with the Little House Books, the ethics of which likely had a larger impact on me than my mother’s strictures. So that, right there, suggests the best advice I have for young parents everywhere: look for the books that your child will love and when they are grown they will not depart from them.

    In my case, that meant following Laura Ingalls Wilder’s instructions for making maple syrup during the years that I lived on a farm with a maple woods. My husband and I tramped out on snowshoes in early March to set the taps, and he built a tripod for the old iron kettle we found in the abandoned log house and I tended that fire religiously, at least four years in a row, discovering for myself how long it took sap to evaporate into thick syrup. Ours had a slight taste of iron to it, and likely theirs did too, but overall it was sweet and dark and tasted great on pancakes.

    Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser, traces the life of the real Laura Ingalls Wilder from her birth in 1867 to her death in 1957, teasing out the realities of life on the frontier that Laura only hinted at in her books: the constant crop failures, the infant deaths, the near-starvation. The realities of grasshoppers and blizzards and prairie fires, all of which are bravely faced in the books but which inflict real and lasting pain and suffering on those who lived through them.

    Fraser also chronicles the history of the Native Americans who had populated Laura’s childhood homes, particularly the massacre by the Dakota at New Ulm, Minnesota, in 1862. She details the provisions of the Homestead Act and the machinations of the railroads that enticed thousands of homesteaders to settle the west, ventures which ended too often in bankruptcy when the land failed them. The tale we have told ourselves of the brave men and women who settled these lands have more than a grain of truth to them, but they are short sentences inserted into paragraphs of fear and want, greed and deception.

    Fraser quotes Henry Adams, writing at the beginning of the Panic of 1893:

    If you owe money, pay it; if you are owed money, get it; if you can economise, do it; and if anyone can be induced to buy anything, sell it. Everyone is in a blue fit of terror, and each individual thinks himself more ruined than his neighbor.

    And he was writing of the privileged class on the east coast. How much worse was it then on the newly settled prairies?

    The first half of the book chronicles Laura’s life as a girl and young woman and fills in the blanks in the Little House Books in a way that illumines rather than diminishes them for me. The second half primarily tells the story of Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, and the writing of the Little House Books themselves. It is a tale of literary effort, process, steps and missteps, interesting in itself. It is also a tale of a mother and daughter who continue to love each other fiercely through their stark differences and occasional betrayals.

    Prairie Fires won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2018, and I recommend it highly to anyone interested in the history of the homesteaders but not least of all to those of us who still remember the Little House Books, who still read them to our daughters. Laura Ingalls Wilder remains, for me, even more of a heroine in her real life than she was as a little girl in the Big Woods.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2017
    Laura Ingalls Wilder's books tell a story that is both true and misleading, the product of a strange and tortured collaboration between Laura and her daughter Rose. Told in full, it would have been a tale full of misery, mistakes and tragedy, relieved by stoic endurance and loyalty. It wouldn't have been published. Wilder struggled to turn her family's pioneer story into the inspiring, heart-warming, heroic tale that fills the Little House books. Caroline Fraser adds context beyond the much-discussed question of the true authorship of the books, placing the pioneer epic in the larger frame of conflicts between settlers and Indians, and North and South, then exploring the later role of the pioneer story in the politics and myth-making of the nation and the world. The reaction against Wilder's books that has led to her name being taken off at least one school named in her honor shocks the books' fans, but Fraser shows how Rose used the stories for her own political purposes, and the US promoted them as propaganda after World War II. Wilder herself slanted the books to bolster the image of the settlers as an ideal model for America. And yet, Fraser's affection for the books and their author shows through her admission of their myopic worldview, omissions, and outright fabrications. Her sympathies clearly lie with Laura rather than with Rose, and she provides evidence against later claims that Rose was the true author of the books.

    The surprises of the book for me are in the details of Rose's life and politics and how she leveraged Laura's books to further her Libertarian views, even beyond her death.

    My own grandmother was born in a log cabin in Wisconsin, and she married my grandfather, whose family homesteaded not far from Walnut Grove. Another grandfather was born in a sod house in Nebraska. My mother grew up in circumstances as difficult as much that Wilder described. When Wilder presents the pioneer story while minimizing or totally ignoring the plight of the displaced and murdered Native Americans, she is telling the tale as my family would have told it. Fraser expands the view to encompass what we must admit if we are honest: our success and wealth were built on the suffering of real people. These sections of Fraser's book aren't comfortable to read, but they are necessary to put the controversy about Wilder's books in context.

    Fraser doesn't hide her own political leanings, as she weaves her rejection of Ayn Rand's philosophy into the discussion of Rose's friendship with Rand and Rose's editing of Laura's later books to introduce Randian themes. I found that enlightening and interesting. Some people won't agree.

    Read this book if you are a fan of Wilder's books. If you know Wilder only from the TV series, read Wilder's books first. (I thoroughly enjoyed Fraser's take-down of the TV series, which I never saw but did read about.)

    I enjoyed Prairie Fire. It didn't make me dislike Wilder's books, or even have a lower opinion of Laura - - though it certainly didn't make me like Rose. I'm giving it four rather than five stars because of a little discomfort with how openly the author's biases, most of which I actually share, are expressed.
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  • Alan R Paine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting book. Impressively reseached
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 29, 2024
    The book gives an amazing insight into the life and times of Little House writer Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane. Fraser draws on a huge array of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, interviews and official documents to tease out truth from fiction in Wilder's famous books about pioneer American life in the 1800s and the role that Lane played in influencing and editing her mother's work. The story continues into the 20th century with Wilder's death in 1957, Lane's in 1968, the TV series 'The Little House on the Prairie' and the wrangling over the ownership of the books copyright after Rose died. In the Kindle edition the pictures which are included at the end are not very good quality but some are also available on line.
    Passages using pronouns such as, she said such and such to her, sometimes leaves the reader in doubt as to who is talking to whom.
  • SH
    5.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening revelations
    Reviewed in Germany on February 17, 2024
    Everyone who is made to think "The Little House on the Prairie"-books are a true account of what happened, needs to read this book.
  • Julie Bennett
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth buying and reading.
    Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2020
    This is a wonderful book, full of insight and interest, and written in such a way that it becomes a compulsive read. Well researched and insightful...I found it refreshing to read fact full details about Laura and her family, with the myths stripped away. Having read other works about her daughter Rose Wilder Lane...What I found in this book confirmed previous thoughts I had about her. I felt she was a deeply troubled woman her entire life, with unresolved mental health issues.
  • barbara mancini
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dettagliato e interessante
    Reviewed in Italy on June 23, 2021
    Lo consiglio a chi è interessato alla storia della famiglia Ingalls e al suo contesto storico.È molto dettagliato e spiega con avvenimenti storici e fatti realmente accaduti,le vicende della famiglia Ingalls narrate nei romanzi di Laura Ingalls Wilder.
    Bellissimo.
  • philae
    5.0 out of 5 stars La vraie vie de la famille Ingalls.
    Reviewed in France on December 9, 2017
    Comme d'habitude, rien à redire sur la livraison et l'emballage du colis avec Amazon.
    j'ai commandé ce livre récemment paru aux Etats-Unis, car fan depuis toujours de la série La petite Maison dans la Prairie, j'avais été quand même surprise de savoir que dans les livres écrits par Laura Ingalls, il n'y avait pas d'Albert ni de mariage de Mary Ingalls. j'ai donc décidé d'en savoir plus et suis tombée dans un premier temps sur Pioneer Girl, le recueil de souvenirs réellement écrit par Laura, sans les corrections réalisées ensuite par sa fille Rose. Le style est lapidaire, peu enjolivé et franchement rebutant; Mais ce sont les vrais souvenirs de Laura Ingalls jusqu'à son mariage avec Almanzo Wilder.
    Dans Prairie Fires, uniquement disponible en anglais, comme tous les ouvrages consacrés à la vraie vie de Laura , l'auteur raconte également l'histoire des pionniers en général. et aussi l'histoire des états du Minnesota, du Dakota et comment les amérindiens ont du sans cesse céder leurs terres, à cause des errements d'Abraham Lincoln. Je suis à la moitié du livre, et le mot qui revient sans cesse dans mon esprit est Pauvreté.
    Je recommande néanmoins ce livre pour tous les amoureux de la famille Ingalls, la vraie, et pour ceux qui veulent en savoir plus sur la vie des pionniers. Bémol évidemment, le livre n'est pas traduit, ça ne me pose pas de problème, mais tout le monde ne lit pas l'anglais, et ce serait quand même mieux si une traduction était envisagée.