So, it seems that Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65 when she wrote the Little House books.. How very serendipitous to learn this one month after my 65th birthday and with my first solo book about to come out. I have a new muse to guide me.
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A WILDER ROSE
by Susan Wittig Albert
Published: September 1, 2013
Publisher: Persevero Press
Genre: Historical Fiction, Historical Biography
Source: Author
Synopsis:
In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane—world traveler, journalist, much-published magazine writer—returned from an Albanian sojourn to her parents’ Ozark farm. Almanzo Wilder was 71, Laura 61, and Rose felt obligated to stay and help. To make life easier, she built them a new home, while she and Helen Boylston transformed the farmhouse into a rural writing retreat and filled it with visiting New Yorkers. Rose sold magazine stories to pay the bills for both households, and despite the subterranean tension between mother and daughter, life seemed good.
Then came the Crash. Rose’s money vanished, the magazine market dried up, and the Depression darkened the nation. That’s when Laura wrote her autobiography, “Pioneer Girl,” the story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the Kansas prairie, and…
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