Laura Ingalls Wilder Autobiography Is Finally Coming To Bookstores Nationwide

The South Dakota State Historical Society Press will release the Laura Ingalls Wilder Autobiography on Monday. Entitled “Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography” was written by Wilder before the “Little House on the Prairie” series but couldn’t get it published.

Pioneer Girl follows the Ingalls family’s journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder’s fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, award-winning Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds valuable context and leads readers through Wilder’s growth as a writer. Do you think you know Laura? Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography will re-introduce you to the woman who defined the pioneer experience for millions.

Get your copy of the autobiography: Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, most notably the author of the Little House series of children’s novels based on her childhood in a pioneer family. She died in 1957 at the age of 90.