Laura Ingalls Wilder

pioneer life · children's author · American frontier · historical fiction

Famous book series. Laura wrote the Little House on the Prairie books between 1932 and 1943, telling the true stories of her childhood moving around the American frontier with her family.

Pioneer childhood. Laura grew up in a settler family that lived in log cabins, sod houses, and other frontier homes across the Great Plains and beyond.

Writer and teacher. Before becoming an author, Laura worked as a teacher and journalist, which helped her develop the writing skills she used for her famous books.

Based on real life. Every adventure in her Little House books came from her own experiences living on the frontier, making them real stories shared as children's tales.