01736cam a2200289 4500 388810328 TxAuBib 20110610120000.0 060724s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97051348 9780826216489 082621648X TxAuBib MIller, John E. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder : The Woman Behind the Legend / John E. Miller. MO : University of Missouri Press, 1998. 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Includes Bibliographical References and Index. Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder's years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her unpublished autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, John E. Miller fills the gaps in Wilder's autobiographical novels and describes her 63 years of living in Mansfield, Missouri. As a result, the process of personal development that culminated in Wilder's writing of the novels that secured her reputation as one of America's most popular children's authors becomes evident. 20060724. Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957 Biography. Women Authors, American 20th Century Biography. Women Pioneers United States Biography. Frontier and Pioneer Life Missouri. Missouri Biography. Biographies and Autobiographies.