Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was an American author best known for the Little House books, historical novels based on her childhood and family life.

Little House books: A series of children’s historical novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder based on her family’s frontier experiences. The series made Wilder famous and reshaped her childhood memories into fiction.
Pepin, Wisconsin: A Wisconsin town near the site of the log cabin where Laura Ingalls was born. Wilder’s birthplace became the setting for the opening Little House novel.
Harper & Brothers: An American publishing house that published the first Little House book in 1932. The publisher launched Wilder’s career as a children’s novelist.
Pioneer Girl: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiographical manuscript, written before the Little House novels and published posthumously. It exposes differences between Wilder’s remembered life and her fictionalized series.
Rose Wilder Lane: An American writer, journalist, and political thinker who was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter. Lane edited and helped shape several manuscripts that became the Little House books.
De Smet, South Dakota: A South Dakota town where the Ingalls family settled and where Wilder spent part of her youth. Several Little House books portray the family’s life in and around De Smet.
Helen Sewell: An American illustrator known for illustrating early editions of the Little House books. Sewell’s illustrations helped establish the series’ visual identity.
Little House on the Prairie (TV series): An American television drama adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and broadcast from 1974 to 1983. The adaptation brought Wilder’s characters to a mass television audience.
Ingalls family: The family of Charles and Caroline Ingalls, whose travels and home life inform Wilder’s books. Wilder’s family supplied the people and many events behind her stories.
Mansfield, Missouri: A Missouri town where Wilder lived for decades and wrote much of her published work. Her home at Rocky Ridge Farm became the center of her mature writing life.

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