Solving a Rose Wilder Lane Mystery: Children of Ararat
Scholars have wondered for years about what happened to Rose Wilder Lane's "lost" Armenian book. Thanks to historian and author Ginger Pedersen, now they know.
Dr. Mabel Elliott worked tirelessly in early-1920s Europe to help thousands of Armenian women and orphans in the aftermath of the horrific Armenian genocide. She subsequently wrote a book about that work.
A hundred years later, Ginger Pederson was in the thick of research for her biography on Dr. Elliott, Unbreakable Healer, when she learned that Dr. Elliott's book, Beginning Again at Ararat, had an uncredited collaborator.
That collaborator? Rose Wilder Lane.
On this week's Land of Laura, Ginger Pedersen tells her story of solving this literary mystery along with Rose Wilder Lane scholar Sallie Ketcham.
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YouTube explainer about Children of Ararat
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Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie
Rose Wilder Lane
Children of Ararat
Armenian Genocide
Ginger Pedersen
Sallie Ketcham
Mabel Elliott