Laura Ingalls Wilder based the 'Little House on the Prairie' book series on her childhood, but fictionalized many of the ...

Loosely based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s best-selling children’s books about her own childhood, the long-running TV series ...

We’re learning this and other Laura Ingalls Wilder revelations now because Wilder has a new book out, 85 years after she wrote it. And good luck finding a copy, by the way.

Should writers who wrote long ago, describing life in the past, be held to 21st century standards of political correctness? The question has arisen many times – most recently about Laura Ingalls ...

We started in DeSmet, S.D., Laura’s last childhood home before she became a teacher and married Almanzo Wilder; then visited Walnut Grove, Minn., where she lived from age 7 to 12 by the banks of ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honor, from the Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of “Little ...

By Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperCollins. 224 pp. $12.99 “Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.” ...

A fan of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books captures some of the pioneer spirit on a 2,300-mile pilgrimage to little houses on the prairie. I had no real explanation for this. When friends asked where … ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s stories are not a cautionary tale. They are stories of the deep family connections that made America what she was—and can be again.

And their names: Bert, Nan, Flossie, Freddie. Perhaps they were related to Ned Nickerson. Laura Ingalls Wilder, by contrast, was not only inspirational, but her stories also proved aspirational.

Rose Wilder Lane at 19. (Herbert Hoover Presidential Library / Picador) I came to feel that that claim was exaggerated. That Laura Ingalls Wilder really was the author of her books but that Rose ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her “Little House” books at this house in Mansfield, Mo. (Alice Short / Los Angeles Times) By Alice Short March 11, 2014 1:10 AM PT ...