Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), October 4th, 1998
As an unabashed fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder, I walked into a conference about her as if traipsing into Miss Bell's millinery shop. The truth about my literary heroine caught me off guard.
The conference, called "Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier," was held last weekend at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, where her papers reside. Her series of eight books proved immediately popular when the first, "Little House in the Big Woods," appeared in 1932. Today, more than 50 million copies are in print. They're huge in Japan, where they've attracted steady r...
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