Authorship
Some people believe Rose was the true writer of the Little House books, or if not the writer, then the one who took Laura’s rough drafts and transformed them into their final forms. We have evidence that the two collaborated, as letters and documents show, but we may never know the full truth. We know that both mother and daughter were talented and that the 1930s were very busy.
In the same decade that Laura published most of the Little House books, Rose published the most famous works of her career. Let the Hurricane Roar was released in 1932, and Free Land was released in 1938. The books were similar to her mother’s books in their subject matter, but her audience for them was older.
