Little House on the Prairie: The Cast and Behind the Scenes
Was Rose Her Mother’s Ghostwriter?
While Rose helped Laura publish her first book, Laura’s success also helped her daughter. Rose’s two most popular novels, Let the Hurricane Roar (1932) and Free Land (1938), were written around the same time that the Little House series made it into print.
Rose’s books covered the same topics but were intended for an adult audience. Because of the similarities in subject matter, some think that Rose was in actuality her mother’s ghostwriter. Others think Rose transformed her mother’s rough drafts and turned them into the children’s books that everyone is familiar with today. Either way, diaries and handwritten manuscripts prove the two collaborated.
