![]() ![]() ![]() With that, please enjoy the 30 best biographies of all time - some historical, some recent, but all remarkable, life-giving tributes to their subjects. Once done there, he works for a local farmer to fix an irrigation system on. It was subsequently picked up as a series in September and ran on NBC for nine seasons until 1983. This TV legend began with the pilot in March of 1974, which introduced the Ingalls family to millions of viewers around the world. In this way, biography differs from the rest of nonfiction.Īll the biographies on this list are just as captivating as excellent novels, if not more so. Ingalls works for the livery owner, grooming and caring for the horses he owns. Little House on the Prairie is one of the most successful dramatic series in television history. ![]() Rather, it should weave a narrative and tell a story in almost the same way a novel does. 335 pages, Paperback First published JanuBook details & editions About the author Laura Ingalls Wilder 509 books4,547 followers Ingalls wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood growing up in a pioneer family. A great biography isn’t just a laundry list of events that happened to someone. Little House on the Prairie, a series of eight mostly autobiographical books about Laura Ingalls Wilders life as a white settler on the American prairie, has been a perennial favorite ever since. Biographer Richard Holmes once wrote that his work was “a kind of pursuit… writing about the pursuit of that fleeting figure, in such a way as to bring them alive in the present.”Īt the risk of sounding cliché, the best biographies do exactly this: bring their subjects to life. ![]()
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