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| Laura Ingalls Wilder |
(historynet.com) ... But how many of Wilder’s fans are aware that before penning children’s books, Wilder had written a
factual account of her late 19th-century childhood? The would-be author was 63 years old when she completed the
Pioneer Girl manuscript in 1930. Publishers in the midst of the Depression were unwilling to take a chance on an autobiography by an unknown, though. So, with editorial guidance from daughter Rose Wilder Lane, a successful writer in her own right, Wilder repackaged the manuscript as juvenile fiction in serial form.
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