Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Alternate names: Laura I. Wilder; Laura Wilder
Born: February 7, 1867
Died: February 10, 1957
Bio: Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's novels (1932 to 1943) based on her childhood in a settler family, which were the basis for the television series 'Little House on the Prairie' during the 1970s and early 1980s.