A New York Times Bestselling Author In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane - world traveler and highly-paid journalist - returned from Albania to her parents'' Ozark farm and felt obligated to stay. Then came the Crash. Rose''s investments vanished and work dried up. That''s when Laura wrote Pioneer Girl. The rest is literary history, but not the history we thought we knew. A Wilder Rose tells the surprising true story of the often strained collaboration that produced the Little House books.