Laura Ingalls Wilder

Born

February 7, 1867

Died

February 10, 1957 (aged 90)

Known as

writer, novelist, teacher, reporter, journalist, children's writer

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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