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In 1928, Rose Wilder Laneworld traveler, journalist, much-published magazine writerreturned from an Albanian sojourn to her parents Ozark farm. Almanzo Wilder was 71, Laura 61, and Rose felt obligated to stay and help. To make life easier, she built them a new home, while she and Helen Boylston transformed the farmhouse into a rural writing retreat and filled it with visiting New Yorkers. Rose sold magazine stories to pay the bills for both households, and despite the subterranean tension between mother and daughter, life seemed good. Then came the Crash. Roses money vanished, the magazine market dried up, and the Depression darkened the nation. Thats when Laura wrote her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, the story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the Kansas prairie, and by the shores of Silver Lake. The restthe eight remarkable books that followedis literary history. But it isnt the history we thought we knew. For the surprising truth is that Lauras stories were publishable only with Roses expert rewriting. Based on Roses unpublished diaries and Lauras letters, A Wilder Rose tells the true story of the decade-long, intensive, and often troubled collaboration that produce

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Author

Albert, Susan Wittig

Publisher

Persevero Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780989203500

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.6 / 5 (1,206 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13