The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane (Missouri Biography Series) (Volume 1)

About this book

Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of the most beloved childrens authors of all time but William Holtz contends that she may not have been the sole author of the Little House series that bore her name. While Lauras life did serve as the inspiration for the books Holtz believes that her daughter Rose Wilder Lane actually took her mothers memoirs and refurbished them into the novels that would be read by millions. In this captivating biography Holtz chronicles Roses life from childhood to travels abroad that began at age seventeen and finally back home to Missouri in her mid-thirties where she would fine tune her mothers writing. Holtz does not write to expose Laura as a fraud but instead The Ghost in the Little House explains that Lauras books were more of a collaborative effort than anyone knew.