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Biographies of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane

Zochert, Donald. Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1976. New York: Avon Books, 1977.

Blair, Gwenda. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen. New York: Putnam, 1981.

Anderson, William. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer and Author. Foreword by Ruth Alexander. New York: Kipling Press, 1987.

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up in the Little House. Illustrated by Eileen McKeating. New York: Viking Penguin, 1987. Women of Our Time.

Greene, Carol. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Author of the Little House Books. Chicago: Childrens, 1990.

Anderson, William. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Wheeler, Jill C. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Tribute to the Young at Heart. Edina, MN: Abdo and Daughters, 1992.

Stine, Megan. The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl. Illustrated by Marcy Dunn Ramsey. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1992. A Yearling Book.

Holtz, William. The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.

Wadsworth, Ginger. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Storyteller of the Prairie. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1997.

Wallner, Alexandra. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Illus. Alexandra Wallner. New York: Holiday, 1997.

Anderson, William. Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Illustrated by Dan Andreasen. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.

Miller, John E. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998.

Woods, Mae. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Edina, MN: Abdo and Daughters, 2000.

Wadsworth, Ginger. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Illus. Shelly O. Haas. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda, 2000.

Gormley, Beatrice. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer. Illustrated by Meryl Henderson. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2001. Childhood of Famous Americans.

Raatma, Lucia. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Teacher and Writer. Chicago: Ferguson, 2001.

Walker, Pamela. Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: Children’s Press, 2001. Welcome Books.

Ward, S. Meet Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: PowerKids, 2001.

Thomson, Pat. Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Reading Tree: True Stories.

Hill, Pamela Smith. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2007. South Dakota Biography Series 1.

Anderson, William. Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Illustrated by Renée Graef. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. New York: Collins, 2008.

Berne, Emma Carlson. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Edina, MN: ABDO Publishing Company, 2008.

Stone, Tanya Lee. Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: DK Publishing, 2009.

Demuth, Patricia Brennan. Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? Illustrated by Tim Foley. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 2013.

McDonough, Yona Zeldis. Little Author in the Big Woods: A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014.