Laura Ingalls Wilder autobiography to be published

Yahoo, this is one very happy LHOP librarian!

I'm excited, too. One year to go. I can't wait, to read it. I wish,it was June 2013 already.

cool.

There is always room for one more Laura book.

I just heard about this too. Wasn't Pioneer Girl online for free for a while?

This should be instersting to read!!

Cheryl, I believe it was the pioneer girl manuscript?

I have a copy of Pioneer Girl manuscript that was transcribed by a research friend of mine in 1996. I have it on my iPad and plan to read it over the next month before Laurapbalooza on July 14th.

First Mark Twain now Laura????

Hey! What a good new! I'm looking for the very moment in which this book will be published...I want to read it NOW!

Vanesa.

July 3, 2012 1:00 pm


‘Little House on the Prairie’ Author’s Autobiography Published for First Time Ever
July 3, 2012 1:00 pm


‘Little House on the Prairie’ Author’s Autobiography Published for First Time Ever



Laura Ingalls Wilder. Source: National Archives

Fangirls and boys of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series know that the “fictional” account of the frontier life of a little girl named “Laura” is at least somewhat based on reality. But next summer, they will be able to find out if truth is better than fiction: for the first time, the author’s autobiography Pioneer Girl will be published.

Pamela Smith Hill, who’s editing and annotating the book, told The Rapid City Journal:


“We’re going to publish the original draft … because it gets us very, very close to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s original voice,” Hill said. She acknowledges that, like any writer, Wilder might “cringe to have her rough draft published.”

The book was first written in 1930 but never found its way into print directly — too boring, more than one publisher said. Much of the material was repurposed for the Little House series, the first installment of which came out in 1932. Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder, had a hand in shaping the Little House series, notes The New Yorker:


[Rose] did some minor tinkering with “Pioneer Girl,” but, once it was decided to fictionalize the memoir as a children’s story—the idea had come from an editor who rejected the memoir—she took a more aggressive role. It varied in intensity from book to book, but she dutifully typed up the manuscript pages, and, in the process, reshaped and heightened the dramatic structure. She also rewrote the prose so drastically that Laura sometimes felt usurped. “A good bit of the detail that I add to your copy is for pure sensory effect,” Rose explained in a letter.

Now readers will be able to see exactly how much Rose pumped up her mother’s prose.

More from Smithsonian.com:

Happy Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder




Fangirls and boys of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series know that the “fictional” account of the frontier life of a little girl named “Laura” is at least somewhat based on reality. But next summer, they will be able to find out if truth is better than fiction: for the first time, the author’s autobiography Pioneer Girl will be published.

Pamela Smith Hill, who’s editing and annotating the book, told The Rapid City Journal:


“We’re going to publish the original draft … because it gets us very, very close to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s original voice,” Hill said. She acknowledges that, like any writer, Wilder might “cringe to have her rough draft published.”

The book was first written in 1930 but never found its way into print directly — too boring, more than one publisher said. Much of the material was repurposed for the Little House series, the first installment of which came out in 1932. Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder, had a hand in shaping the Little House series, notes The New Yorker:


[Rose] did some minor tinkering with “Pioneer Girl,” but, once it was decided to fictionalize the memoir as a children’s story—the idea had come from an editor who rejected the memoir—she took a more aggressive role. It varied in intensity from book to book, but she dutifully typed up the manuscript pages, and, in the process, reshaped and heightened the dramatic structure. She also rewrote the prose so drastically that Laura sometimes felt usurped. “A good bit of the detail that I add to your copy is for pure sensory effect,” Rose explained in a letter.

Now readers will be able to see exactly how much Rose pumped up her mother’s prose.

More from Smithsonian.com:

Happy Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder

This is a MUST in my Laura Ingalls Wilder collection. It sounds really intersting and I'd been wanting to have it among my books since I began to read about Mrs. Ingalls life and time...

Thanks to write about it, David, you are a dear!

An talking about Laura, I've always loved the pic you posted above. Laura looks really beatiful in it...Her eyes were very special. They were in a very special shade of blue,and her daughter Rose wrote that when our Half-Pint was angry, her eyes would look PURPLE!

Vanesa.

That pic was with the article, and to be honest, I was rather surprised how pretty she was.
I'm not a real big Laura follower, but I plan on reading that bio - think it will be interesting, even if Albert isn't around!
David

For me, Laura was the prettiest of the four Ingalls girls.

If you read this bio, you'll like Laura a lot. She was a remarkable woman, indeed.

Vanesa.

I'M not a big Laura follower either.The book does look intersting tho.In that picture she looked very pretty!.

haha ya.If i get a copy of it.

Pictures taken during that time.People always seemed to look so serious.

I'll buy a copy, and when I finish it, Ill send it to you!

That's very nice of you.But you don't have to do that.

I heard about this a little while ago now. I am really looking forward to this one.

Vanesa wrote:

For me, Laura was the prettiest of the four Ingalls girls.

If you read this bio, you'll like Laura a lot. She was a remarkable woman, indeed.

Vanesa.

I always thought she was, too. In fact, I thought Almanzo was so nice-looking. And I think they made such a good-looking couple. And Rose, I always thought she was so pretty, too. I guess she was just the right combination of Laura and Almanzo.

You can keep up with the process of publishing this book at the website http://pioneergirlproject.org/ I love watching the videos posted there. Can't wait til next June.

Thanks for that link. I will definitely be checking that out later. Maybe as soon as I get off of here.

LIWnut wrote:

Yahoo, this is one very happy LHOP librarian!

Me too!

Davetucson wrote:

July 3, 2012 1:00 pm


‘Little House on the Prairie’ Author’s Autobiography Published for First Time Ever
July 3, 2012 1:00 pm


‘Little House on the Prairie’ Author’s Autobiography Published for First Time Ever



Laura Ingalls Wilder. Source: National Archives

Fangirls and boys of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series know that the “fictional” account of the frontier life of a little girl named “Laura” is at least somewhat based on reality. But next summer, they will be able to find out if truth is better than fiction: for the first time, the author’s autobiography Pioneer Girl will be published.

Pamela Smith Hill, who’s editing and annotating the book, told The Rapid City Journal:


“We’re going to publish the original draft … because it gets us very, very close to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s original voice,” Hill said. She acknowledges that, like any writer, Wilder might “cringe to have her rough draft published.”

The book was first written in 1930 but never found its way into print directly — too boring, more than one publisher said. Much of the material was repurposed for the Little House series, the first installment of which came out in 1932. Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder, had a hand in shaping the Little House series, notes The New Yorker:


[Rose] did some minor tinkering with “Pioneer Girl,” but, once it was decided to fictionalize the memoir as a children’s story—the idea had come from an editor who rejected the memoir—she took a more aggressive role. It varied in intensity from book to book, but she dutifully typed up the manuscript pages, and, in the process, reshaped and heightened the dramatic structure. She also rewrote the prose so drastically that Laura sometimes felt usurped. “A good bit of the detail that I add to your copy is for pure sensory effect,” Rose explained in a letter.

Now readers will be able to see exactly how much Rose pumped up her mother’s prose.

More from Smithsonian.com:

Happy Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder




Fangirls and boys of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series know that the “fictional” account of the frontier life of a little girl named “Laura” is at least somewhat based on reality. But next summer, they will be able to find out if truth is better than fiction: for the first time, the author’s autobiography Pioneer Girl will be published.

Pamela Smith Hill, who’s editing and annotating the book, told The Rapid City Journal:


“We’re going to publish the original draft … because it gets us very, very close to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s original voice,” Hill said. She acknowledges that, like any writer, Wilder might “cringe to have her rough draft published.”

The book was first written in 1930 but never found its way into print directly — too boring, more than one publisher said. Much of the material was repurposed for the Little House series, the first installment of which came out in 1932. Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder, had a hand in shaping the Little House series, notes The New Yorker:


[Rose] did some minor tinkering with “Pioneer Girl,” but, once it was decided to fictionalize the memoir as a children’s story—the idea had come from an editor who rejected the memoir—she took a more aggressive role. It varied in intensity from book to book, but she dutifully typed up the manuscript pages, and, in the process, reshaped and heightened the dramatic structure. She also rewrote the prose so drastically that Laura sometimes felt usurped. “A good bit of the detail that I add to your copy is for pure sensory effect,” Rose explained in a letter.

Now readers will be able to see exactly how much Rose pumped up her mother’s prose.

More from Smithsonian.com:

Happy Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder

No one knows her and she’s already written her books
So stop dissecting and just enjoy her and little house stories are fictional but I love them