Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder, circa 1885
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| Born | Laura Elizabeth Ingalls February 7, 1867 Pepin County, Wisconsin |
| Died | February 10, 1957 (aged 90) Mansfield, Missouri |
| Occupation | Writer, teacher, journalist, family farmer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1911–1957 (as writer) |
| Genre | Diaries, essays, family saga (children's historical novels) |
| Subject | Midwestern & Western |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal est. 1954 |
| Spouse | Almanzo Wilder (m. 1885; his death 1949) |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder (/ˈɪŋɡəlz/; February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books released from 1932 to 1943 which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the television series Little House on the Prairie was loosely based on the Little House books, and starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls and Michael Landon as her father, Charles Ingalls.
Laura Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867, seven miles north of the village of Pepin in the Big Woods region of Wisconsin, to Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake (née Quiner) Ingalls. She was the second of five children, following Mary Amelia. Their three younger siblings were Caroline Celestia, Charles Frederick (who died in infancy), and Grace Pearl. Wilder's birth site is commemorated by a replica log cabin, the Little House Wayside. Life there formed the basis for her first book, Little House in the Big Woods (1932). Wilder was a descendant of the Delano family, the ancestral family of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A progenitor of the Delano family emigrated to the Plymouth Colony in the early 1620s; another family ancestor, Edmund Rice, emigrated in 1638 to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. One paternal ancestor, Edmund Ingalls, was born on June 27, 1586, in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England, and emigrated to America, where he died in Lynn, Massachusetts, on September 16, 1648.
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