Laura Ingalls Wilder Author's Life

Times were tough when Wilder came into the world. She grew up on the prairie with her family of five. Laura Ingalls Wilder stories reflect her life in the midwest. Her pioneer lifestyle and the struggles of raising crops and a family are often the subjects of her work. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born February 7, 1876 in a log cabin close to Pepin, Wisconsin. This was the home her first book “the Little House in the Big Woods” was written about. She was the second of five children born to Charles and Caroline Ingalls. She had one older sister, Mary and two younger sisters, Carrie and Grace and one brother, Charles Jr. that died as an infant. “Wilder described her early years as "full of sunshine and shadow."” (Bio) When Wilder was …show more content…
She is also the author of Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life. Hill publishes Wilder’s original memoirs for the first time in November of 2014. This would again raise the question of who actually wrote the series. The book Pioneer Girl reads more like an outline for the books in the “Little House” series leaving out the second book Farmer Boy. It was meant for an adult audience so it didn’t leave out the bleaker side of life on the prairie such as divorce, domestic violence, and financial troubles. It did oddly leave out the years they were in Burr Oak, Iowa. Hill felt the reason was because those years were too grim. Hill’s notes provide historical content for the characters, events and setting. “ Some of the revelations are startling: a wealthy neighbor asks to adopt 10-year old Laura, a sign of the Ingalls family's severe financial struggles; at one point, Pa threatens to skip town without paying rent; the real-life Rev. Alden, saintly in the books, turns out to be "a pious fraud and a cheat." Even though there is a question about who actually wrote the books Americans still have a fascination with Wilder’s life.(Los Angeles