Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, born in 1867, best known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family. At fifteen years old, Laura signed on to teach at a schoolhouse some twelve miles from home, which was the first of several teaching jobs she had. In 1885 she married Almanzo Wilder, quit teaching, and had a daughter named Rose, who, when she grew up, encouraged her mother to begin writing about her life. In 1932, Laura Ingalls Wilder published Little House in the Big Woods, the first in the Little House series, which was followed by eight others. She completed the last book…