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

Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of the most beloved children s 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 Laura s life did serve as the inspiration for the books, Holtz believes that her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, actually took her mother s memoirs and refurbished them into the novels that would be read by millions. In this captivating biography, Holtz chronicles Rose s 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 mother s writing. Holtz does not write to expose Laura as a fraud, but instead The Ghost in the Little House explains that Laura s books were more of a collaborative effort than anyone knew.