Millions of readers believe they know Laura Ingalls of the epic, autobiographical Little House on the Prairie series, but the true saga of her life has never been fully told until now. Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires is a deeply researched and elegantly written portrait of Laura Ingalls Wilder that describes how Wilder transformed her family’s story of poverty, failure and struggle into an uplifting tale of self-reliance, familial love and perseverance. Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich sits down with Fraser to fill in the gaps in Wilder’s biography, revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life.

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A book signing will follow this program.