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Confessions Of A Prairie Bitch
Alison Arngrim
How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
It Books
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0061962147
EAN: 9780061962141
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched,
scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV
history's most beloved series. Though millions of Little
House on the Prairie viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her
evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her character—and the
freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her. In Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Arngrim describes growing
up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a
talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for
publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma
MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly
Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly
funny moments behind the scenes of Little House: Michael
Landon's "unsaintly" habit of not wearing underwear; how she
and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura
Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on
rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine
MacGregor (who played Nellie's mom) appeared in public in
costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to
attack them. Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she
also bravely recounts her life's challenges: her struggle to
survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and
paralyzing shyness; the "secret" her father kept from her
for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her "Little
House husband" and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which
inspired her second career in social and political activism.
Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold,
daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to
have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her
the way.
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