Laura ingalls wilder bio
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin on February 7, , to Charles Ingalls and his wife, Caroline.
When Laura was still a baby, Pa and Ma decided to move to a farm near Keytesville, Missouri, and the family lived there about a year. Then they moved to land on the prairie south of Independence, Kansas. After two years in their little house on the prairie, the Ingallses went back to the Big Woods to live in the same house they had left three years earlier.
This time the family stayed in the Big Woods for three years. These were the years that Laura wrote about in her first book, Little House in the Big Woods.
In the winter of , when Laura was seven, Ma and Pa decided to move west to Minnesota. They found a beautiful farm near Walnut Grove, on the banks of Plum Creek.
The next two years were hard ones for the Ingallses. Swarms of grasshoppers devoured all the crops in the area, and Ma and Pa could not pay off all their debts. The family de
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
American writer, teacher, and journalist (–)
"Laura Ingalls" redirects here. For other persons, see Laura Ingalls (disambiguation).
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Laura Ingalls Wilder, circa | |
| Born | Laura Elizabeth Ingalls ()February 7, Pepin County, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | February 10, () (aged&#;90) Mansfield, Missouri, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Period | – (as a writer) |
| Genre | Diaries, essays, family saga (children'shistorical novels) |
| Subject | Midwestern and Western |
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| Notable awards | Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal est. |
| Spouse | Almanzo Wilder &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
| Children | 2, including Rose Wilder Lane |
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Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, – February 10, ) was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the ch
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Prairie Fires wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
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At a ceremony in New York on March 15, Prairie Fireswon the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Describing the work as “a captivating biography,” NBCC board member Elizabeth Taylor declared, “Laura Ingalls Wilder endures, and now future generations can read Fraser’s marvelous biography and understand her framtidsperspektiv of how Ingalls dreams of the frontier. Caroline Fraser has brilliantly recast our understanding of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life and times, and affirmed her influence in shaping the myth of the iconic West.”
And on March 27, the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced that Prairie Fires was the finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize for a book “that best combines intellectual distinction with felicity of något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans