John E. Miller is a writer and historian who taught American history for three decades at South Dakota State University. He is the author of several books, including Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet and Looking for History on Highway 14. He resides in Brookings, South Dakota.The Missouri Biography Series, edited by William E. Foley
"[Miller] draws on Wilder's unpublished autobiography, existing
letters written to her daughter and to her husband on the few
occasions she traveled without him, and her fiction and 'newspaper
stories, local histories, land records, ' which he mines to create
an impressively detailed context for her life. . . . Miller does
not try to make her any more--or less--than she was, and that is
the virtue of his biography."--Washington Post Book World "John E.
Miller's scrupulous new biography of Wilder is a valuable and
absorbing book." -Ann Romines, Great Plains Quarterly "Miller's
thorough, riveting, work illuminates a complex process of
authorship, and the mother and daughter behind it." -Jane St.
Anthony, Minneapolis Star-Tribune"...An enjoyable portrait of a
fascinating personality and her time." -Jo Ellen Heil, Ventura
County Star"Shedding new light on this remarkable woman, Miller
demonstrates that Wilder's entire life was a process of becoming
the woman we know as the beloved children's author." -Robert H.
Ferrell, American Bookseller
"Miller's absorbing new biography . . . puts the author's early
years in context before focusing on her adult life as a farmer's
wife, mother, journalist and budding author. . . . Miller uncovers
facts about Laura's life that were not revealed in her own work,
and he places her experience in a broader context. He makes her
days on the frontier and the farm come alive with statistics on
population and demographics as well as rich details about Indians
and wildlife."--In These Times
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