History Talks Live!

Nancy Tystad Koupal unveils her new book, Following the Footsteps of Laura Ingalls Wilder: An Editor’s Reflections. Participate in the fun as Koupal discusses her path to publishing the New York Times bestseller, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, and signs copies of her new book! In this volume of the Pioneer Girl Project, Nancy Tystad Koupal compiles more than a decade’s worth of blog posts, covering a vast range of topics related to Laura Ingalls Wilder: LauraPalooza conferences, behind-the-scenes accounts of publishing the Pioneer Girl Project and Little House books, fascinating vignettes about Wilder’s life and their influence on her writing, and more. The final chapter includes a full-length essay that investigates the puzzle of Wilder’s posthumously published Little House novel, The First Four Years.