'Prairie Fires' author Caroline Fraser offers a substantial biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Well. Surprise, surprise. I thought she was talking to me – me.
Not so. I wasn’t the only one duped. I, and I bet many of you, and Virginia Kirkus, too, who was working as an editor at Harper & Brothers at the time when across her desk slid the manuscript of "Little House in the Big Woods"“The real magic was in the telling. One felt that one was listening, not reading. And picture after picture ... flashed before my inward eye. I knew Laura – and the older Laura who was telling her story. Here
