Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Woman Behind the Legend

John E. Miller

Narrated by Paula Faye Leinweber

Available from Audible

Book published by University of Missouri Press

John E. Miller is a writer and historian who taught American history for three decades at South Dakota State University. He is the author of several books, including Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet.

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“Miller draws on Wilder’s unpublished autobiography, existing letters written to her daughter and to her husband on the few occasions she traveled without him, and her fiction and ‘newspaper stories, local histories, land records,’ which he mines to create an impressively detailed context for her life.... Miller does not try to make her any more––or less––than she was, and that is the virtue of his biography.”

—Washington Post Book World