![]() "We knew we had a perennially popular author, Laura Ingalls Wilder," Koupal said. ![]() ![]() Wilder penned the popular children's series of "Little House on the Prairie" books, but her autobiography was written for an adult audience and gives a more realistic, grittier view of frontier living. "We were anticipating we would print 5,000," Nancy Tystad Koupal, director of the South Dakota Historical Society Press, told the Argus Leader newspaper. It's in its fourth week on the New York Times Best Sellers list and as of early May will have 125,000 copies in print. It has proved to be a blockbuster for the South Dakota Historical Society Press. "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography," edited by Pamela Smith Hill, was released in November. | South Dakota's state-owned publishing house is printing more copies of the best-selling memoir by prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder. ![]()
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