Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American author best known for the *Little House* series of children's novels, which fictionalized her childhood on the American frontier in the late 1800s.
The books—including *Little House on the Prairie* and *Little House in the Big Woods*—became classics of children's literature and inspired a long-running television series.
Her name often evokes pioneer life, self-reliance, and nostalgic visions of rural America.
Open grassy flatland
- frontierEdge of settlement
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- settlerOne who colonizes territory
- covered wagonCanvas-roofed pioneer vehicle
log cabin · westward · sod house · dugout · claim · Kansas · Indian Territory · blizzard
Source of creative impulse
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- self-relianceDepending on oneself alone
- determinationFirmness of purpose
role model · courage · grit · homesteading · American spirit · nostalgia · museum · Mansfield
Writer of prose narratives
- children's booksLiterature for young readers
- autobiographicalConcerning one's own life
- historical fictionNovels set in actual pasts
- pioneer lifeEarly settler's rugged existence
storyteller · series · manuscript · publishing · literary · memoir · narrative · American literature
prairie
Open grassy flatland
covered wagon · log cabin · westward · sod house · dugout · claim · Kansas · Indian Territory · blizzard · kerosene lamp
inspiration
Source of creative impulse
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- self-relianceDepending on oneself alone
determination · role model · courage · grit · homesteading · American spirit · nostalgia · museum · Mansfield · historical preservation
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- children's booksLiterature for young readers
- autobiographicalConcerning one's own life
- historical fictionNovels set in actual pasts
pioneer life · storyteller · series · manuscript · publishing · literary · memoir · narrative · American literature · frontier tales
Ma
Million years ago
sibling · homestead · kinship · heritage · relatives · ancestry
- Midwest WritersCarl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, Gilead, Lake Wobegon
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- late bloomersGrandma Moses, Colonel Sanders, Vera Wang, Julia Child, Stan Lee
- Little House
- MissouriGateway Arch, St. Louis, Kansas City, Ozarks, Branson
Laura Ingalls WilderUpton Sinclair
Laura Ingalls WilderLemony Snicket
Unfortunate events chronicler
Roald Dahl · Lois Lowry · S.E. Hinton · Suzanne Collins · Neil Gaiman