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Rose Wilder Lane
1886–1968
An adventurous American writer, journalist, and political thinker, she moved far beyond the world of the prairie she grew up in. Her life linked frontier family history, early 20th-century reporting, and the rise of modern libertarian ideas.
3 Audiobooks
Henry Ford's Own Story How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity
by Rose Wilder Lane
Peaks of Shala
by Rose Wilder Lane
Diverging roads
by Rose Wilder Lane
About the author
Born in De Smet, South Dakota, in 1886, Rose Wilder Lane was the only child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder. She built a career as a novelist, journalist, and travel writer, and later became known as an important voice in American libertarian thought.
Lane lived and worked in many places, reporting from the United States and abroad, and her writing ranged from fiction to memoir and political commentary. She is also often discussed alongside her mother because of her editorial role in the shaping and publication of the Little House books, a connection that keeps her name closely tied to one of America's best-known literary families.
She died in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1968. Today, she is remembered both for her own wide-ranging writing career and for the lasting debates around her influence on the Little House series and on 20th-century political ideas.