Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 1957) finished her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, in
1930 when she was sixty-three years old. Throughout the 1930s and into the early
1940s, she drew upon her original manuscript to write a successful series of
books for young readers. Wilder s vision of life on the American frontier in the
last half of the nineteenth century continues to draw new generations of readers
to her Little House books. Editor Nancy Tystad Koupal has collected essays from
noted scholars of Wilder s life and work that explore the themes and genesis of
Wilder s writings. Pioneer Girl Perspectives sheds new light on the story