Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer. The Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, published between 1932 and 1943, were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, circa 1885
Caroline and Charles Ingalls
Surveyor's House, the first home in Dakota Territory of the Charles Ingalls family – De Smet, South Dakota
Rose Wilder Lane birthplace roadside marker – De Smet
Little House on the Prairie
The Little House on the Prairie books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The stories are based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest between 1870 and 1894. Eight of the novels were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers in the 1930s and 1940s, during her lifetime. The name "Little House" appears in the first and third novels in the series, while the third is identically titled Little House on the Prairie. The second novel, meanwhile, was about her husband's childhood.
First edition hardcover (1935) of the most frequently adapted volume (third in the series)
First edition hardcover of the first volume (1932)
Little House replica at the Little House Wayside in Wisconsin
The author's parents, Caroline and Charles Ingalls