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When Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her autobiography,
Pioneer Girl
, she had no idea that children across the United States would be reading about and falling in love with Laura Ingalls and her family just two years later.
Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction
traces the evolution of Wilder's matter-of-fact memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin into a bestselling novel for children. Along the way, editor Nancy Tystad Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects of this story as she examines the various drafts of
Little House in the Big Woods
.
The third volume in the Pioneer Girl Project series,
follows Wilder as she steps away from autobiography and into the world of fiction. Wilder handed her memoir over to her daughter, novelist and journalist Rose Wilder Lane, for editing, but when the revised versions of
failed to attract a publisher, Lane reframed the Wisconsin portion of her mother's autobiography as juvenile fiction. The resulting twenty-one-page picture-book manuscript, "When Grandma Was a Little Girl," featured Pa's well-honed tales told within the cozy Ingalls home in 1870s Wisconsin. This manuscript captured the attention of a New York publisher, who wanted more words--15,000 more words--about pioneer life for readers aged eight to ten. Accepting the challenge, Wilder returned to
for additional material. As she wrote, she created multiple drafts and a completed manuscript for Lane to edit and type. Collecting all the unpublished drafts in
, editor Koupal documents Wilder's process and explores the roles of authors, editors, and agents in the crafting of children's fiction.
Koupal reveals that as Wilder continued down the path, she came to understand that writing novels freed her to restructure events, create stronger, combined characters, and fit truth into the space between fact and fiction. The succession of manuscript drafts that paved the way from the original
to the publication of
reveals the strengths of Wilder as an author and Lane as an editor and agent. The relationship brought forth the best efforts of both women and created a childhood classic.
Pioneer Girl
, she had no idea that children across the United States would be reading about and falling in love with Laura Ingalls and her family just two years later.
Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction
traces the evolution of Wilder's matter-of-fact memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin into a bestselling novel for children. Along the way, editor Nancy Tystad Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects of this story as she examines the various drafts of
Little House in the Big Woods
.
The third volume in the Pioneer Girl Project series,
follows Wilder as she steps away from autobiography and into the world of fiction. Wilder handed her memoir over to her daughter, novelist and journalist Rose Wilder Lane, for editing, but when the revised versions of
failed to attract a publisher, Lane reframed the Wisconsin portion of her mother's autobiography as juvenile fiction. The resulting twenty-one-page picture-book manuscript, "When Grandma Was a Little Girl," featured Pa's well-honed tales told within the cozy Ingalls home in 1870s Wisconsin. This manuscript captured the attention of a New York publisher, who wanted more words--15,000 more words--about pioneer life for readers aged eight to ten. Accepting the challenge, Wilder returned to
for additional material. As she wrote, she created multiple drafts and a completed manuscript for Lane to edit and type. Collecting all the unpublished drafts in
, editor Koupal documents Wilder's process and explores the roles of authors, editors, and agents in the crafting of children's fiction.
Koupal reveals that as Wilder continued down the path, she came to understand that writing novels freed her to restructure events, create stronger, combined characters, and fit truth into the space between fact and fiction. The succession of manuscript drafts that paved the way from the original
to the publication of
reveals the strengths of Wilder as an author and Lane as an editor and agent. The relationship brought forth the best efforts of both women and created a childhood classic.
When Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her autobiography,
Pioneer Girl
, she had no idea that children across the United States would be reading about and falling in love with Laura Ingalls and her family just two years later.
Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction
traces the evolution of Wilder's matter-of-fact memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin into a bestselling novel for children. Along the way, editor Nancy Tystad Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects of this story as she examines the various drafts of
Little House in the Big Woods
.
The third volume in the Pioneer Girl Project series,
follows Wilder as she steps away from autobiography and into the world of fiction. Wilder handed her memoir over to her daughter, novelist and journalist Rose Wilder Lane, for editing, but when the revised versions of
failed to attract a publisher, Lane reframed the Wisconsin portion of her mother's autobiography as juvenile fiction. The resulting twenty-one-page picture-book manuscript, "When Grandma Was a Little Girl," featured Pa's well-honed tales told within the cozy Ingalls home in 1870s Wisconsin. This manuscript captured the attention of a New York publisher, who wanted more words--15,000 more words--about pioneer life for readers aged eight to ten. Accepting the challenge, Wilder returned to
for additional material. As she wrote, she created multiple drafts and a completed manuscript for Lane to edit and type. Collecting all the unpublished drafts in
, editor Koupal documents Wilder's process and explores the roles of authors, editors, and agents in the crafting of children's fiction.
Koupal reveals that as Wilder continued down the path, she came to understand that writing novels freed her to restructure events, create stronger, combined characters, and fit truth into the space between fact and fiction. The succession of manuscript drafts that paved the way from the original
to the publication of
reveals the strengths of Wilder as an author and Lane as an editor and agent. The relationship brought forth the best efforts of both women and created a childhood classic.
Pioneer Girl
, she had no idea that children across the United States would be reading about and falling in love with Laura Ingalls and her family just two years later.
Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction
traces the evolution of Wilder's matter-of-fact memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin into a bestselling novel for children. Along the way, editor Nancy Tystad Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects of this story as she examines the various drafts of
Little House in the Big Woods
.
The third volume in the Pioneer Girl Project series,
follows Wilder as she steps away from autobiography and into the world of fiction. Wilder handed her memoir over to her daughter, novelist and journalist Rose Wilder Lane, for editing, but when the revised versions of
failed to attract a publisher, Lane reframed the Wisconsin portion of her mother's autobiography as juvenile fiction. The resulting twenty-one-page picture-book manuscript, "When Grandma Was a Little Girl," featured Pa's well-honed tales told within the cozy Ingalls home in 1870s Wisconsin. This manuscript captured the attention of a New York publisher, who wanted more words--15,000 more words--about pioneer life for readers aged eight to ten. Accepting the challenge, Wilder returned to
for additional material. As she wrote, she created multiple drafts and a completed manuscript for Lane to edit and type. Collecting all the unpublished drafts in
, editor Koupal documents Wilder's process and explores the roles of authors, editors, and agents in the crafting of children's fiction.
Koupal reveals that as Wilder continued down the path, she came to understand that writing novels freed her to restructure events, create stronger, combined characters, and fit truth into the space between fact and fiction. The succession of manuscript drafts that paved the way from the original
to the publication of
reveals the strengths of Wilder as an author and Lane as an editor and agent. The relationship brought forth the best efforts of both women and created a childhood classic.
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