A-1521 Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Years
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Together we’ll read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s These Happy Golden Years, the last of the books published during Wilder’s lifetime. The story starts as young Laura begins her first teaching assignment in 1882. By exploring history, we will contextualize the events in 19th Century Dakota Territory. We’ll discuss the differences between fact and fiction in the author’s work, and we’ll discover what the Laura scholars have to say.
Shanley Wells Rau
Shanley Wells-Rau spent 20 years as a writer and editor in the corporate world before starting graduate work at Oklahoma State University, where she served as an editorial assistant for Cimarron Review and taught composition. She completed her MFA in Poetry in 2018. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New Territory, Poetry Quarterly, Plants & Poetry and Bluestem Magazine, among others. She is a docent-in-training at the Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Osage County, Okla. She also serves as a reader for Gold Wake Press, an independent literary publisher. She teaches literature and creative writing part-time and lives on a windy hill outside Ponca City with her husband and dog.