My heroine is Laura Ingalls Wilder. She's not the woman I thought she was. Still a great woman, but a much different one than I thought.
As I work through the drafts of my book on the literary collaboration between Laura and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, I realize that I am coming to know the real woman anew. The Laura I and millions of fans have loved is the free-spirited prairie girl. Laura the writer is also a stern mother, arguing and acting passive-aggressive with her editor daughter. She's an intelligent but spottily educated farmer's wife who understood theme...
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