Good biography, bad biography – two brief book reviews
This year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography was Caroline Fraser, for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. If, like me, you read the Little House on the Prairie books as a child, then you already know all about Laura Ingalls Wilder. She grew up in the 1800s on the American frontier, with…
Laura Ingalls Wilder Autobiography
Hands up who loved the Little House on the Prairie books? Not just me then? Thought not. Then you might be a teensy bit interested in the forthcoming publication of Pioneer Girl – Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography. Now the writer’s autobiography, from which she drew the material that has delighted readers for decades, will be…