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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 1943, which was based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
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culture · American teacher and writer (1867–1957) · writer · novelist · teacher · reporter · journalist · children's writer · autobiographer · also Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Lansford Ingalls, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder, Wilder
Born 7 February 1867 · Died 10 February 1957 · Q237514
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2026· 6 entries
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2018· 1 entry
The award was renamed the Children's Literature Legacy Award in light of language in Wilder's works which the Association perceived as biased against Native Americans and African Americans
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2014· 1 entry
The South Dakota State Historical Society published an annotated version of Wilder's autobiography, titled Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
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1995· 1 entry
When the Laura Ingalls Wilder Branch of the Wright County Library in Mansfield—the library founded in part by Wilder—tried to recover the rights to the series
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1968· 1 entry
However, her chosen heir as well as her business agent and lawyer, Roger MacBride, gained control of the books' copyrights
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1958· 1 entry
Farmer Boy (1933) – about Almanzo Wilder growing up in New York
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1957· 2 entries
Died 1957-02-10.
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Wilder's works are now public domain in countries where the term of copyright lasts 50 years after the author's death, or less; generally this does not include works first published posthumously
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Children's Literature Legacy Award (1954).
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The ALA inaugurated a lifetime achievement award for children's writers and illustrators, named for Wilder, of which she was the first recipient
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1932· 1 entry
Was for $500, equivalent to $11,800 in 2025
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1930· 1 entry
Wilder requested Lane's opinion about an autobiographical manuscript she had written about her pioneering childhood
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1928· 1 entry
Lane hired out the construction of an English-style stone cottage for her parents on property adjacent to the farmhouse they had personally built and still inhabited
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1924· 1 entry
And her older sister in 1928, seem to have prompted her to preserve her memories in a life story called Pioneer Girl
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1911· 1 entry
Led to Wilder's permanent position as a columnist and editor with that publication, which she held until the mid-1920s
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1902· 1 entry
Served as the Worthy Matron of the chapter
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1897· 1 entry
Joined Mansfield Chapter #76, Order of the Eastern Star
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1894· 1 entry
The Wilders moved to Mansfield, Missouri, and used their savings to make the down payment on an undeveloped parcel of land just outside town
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1889· 1 entry
Gave birth to a son who died after 12 days
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1886· 1 entry
Wilder gave birth to her daughter, Rose
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1882· 1 entry
Two months before her 16th birthday, Ingalls accepted her first teaching position
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-02-07.
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