Laura Ingalls Wilder Author,
Dies at 90 February 10, 1957
Writer of the Little House
Series for Children was
An Ex-News Paper Editor
MANSFIELD,
Ohio, Feb. 10 [AP] Mrs. Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House”
Series of children’s books, died yesterday at her farm near here after a long
illness. Her age was 90.
Wrote
First book at 65.
Mrs.
Wilder wrote her first book in 1932 at the age of 65. Mrs. Wilder. At the insistence of her daughter, Rose
Wilder Lane, herself a novelist, Mrs. Wilder recalled her early days as a child
of pioneer family in the “Little House in the Big Wood.”
The
story told of the Wisconsin where she was born and from which her family set
out in a covered wagon for Indian Territory.
Their adventures were described in the Little House on the Prairie.”
A
school teacher at the age of 15, she became a housewife three years late upon her
marriage to Almonzo James Wilder in 1885. He died in 1949 at the age of 92.
After
the birth of their daughter Wilders, moved from De Smet South Dakota to
Florida, they later went to the Ozarks.
She became famous there for her books and her ginger bread.
Mrs.
Wilder was, for twelve years editor of the Missouri Ruralist. She also had been poultry editor of the St.
Louis Star and a writer of Magazine articles before becoming an author of
books.
Her
books included “The Long Winters,” on the banks of Plum Creek,” By the shores
of Silver Lake,’ ‘Farmer Boys’ Story of her husband’s childhood, and “These
Happy Golden Years.”
Mrs.
Wilder’s books have been translated into three languages in 1949 a library in
Mansfield Was dedicated in her honor.
The
Children’s Library Association established the Laura Ingalls Wilder award 1954
for a lasting contribution to literature for children. Mrs. Wilder was the first recipient of the
medal.
The
New York Tine
Published:
February 12, 1957
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