“Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction” by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author) and Nancy Tystad Koupal (Editor), traces the evolution of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s matter-of-fact memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin into a bestselling novel for children. Along the way, editor Tystad Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects of this story as she examines the various drafts of “Little House in the Big Woods.”
The succession of manuscript drafts that paved the way from the original Pioneer Girl to the publication of Little House in the Big Woods reveals the strengths of Wilder as an author and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, as an editor and agent. The relationship brought forth the best efforts of both women and created a childhood classic.
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