Book Talk

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. In "Pioneer Girl: The Path to Fiction," Nancy Tystad Koupal traces the evolution of Wilder's memoir of her girlhood into a bestselling novel for children. Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects of this story as she examines drafts of "Little House in the Big Woods."