Kate Harding, read the books.

I read the initial article yesterday evening but have yet to read the comments. Thank you for pointing me to them...

Thanks for alerting us. I'm going to check it out.

Gah. She got paid for that?

Kate Harding wrote a singularly ignorant and lazy article. There's so much wrong with it that I will only point out a few things. She bases the question of whether Laura Ingalls Wilder or her daughter Rose Wilder Lane is the most interesting woman largely on the TV show "Little House on the Prairie". Aside from why there would need to be a competition, the TV show had no direct connection with either of them, as a pale and sappy show loosely based on the book.

Harding is condescending writing "When author Wendy McClure told me she'd begun working on a book about their family, "The Wilder Life," for which she would be traveling to many of the least appealing parts of the Midwest". She dismisses the author McClure and an entire section of the country with this snarky remark.

Fortunately, many comments following the article take Harding to task. Salon.com should be ashamed.

Thanks for the comments, everyone. Mumbletypeg and SuznMaree, I agree that Harding is particularly snarky AND lazy in her post. I very much enjoyed the comments that followed, which were quick to point out her mistakes and omissions. It was robust.