MARCH/APRIL 2014
Person of Interest
Late Life Success:
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author of The Little House Series
didn’t publish until age 65
by Angela S. Hoover, Staff Writer
“There’s no great loss without
some small gain.”
These words passage from Chapter 9: Blackbirds in the sixth book
of the Little House series, Beyond
Little House: Little Town on the
Prairie, summarizes Laura Ingalls
Wilder’s life.
Wilder experienced through
extraordinary loss in her life. But
she received and gave more than
a small gain when she published
the first Little House book at the
age of 65.
The Little House series of novels
chronicles Wilder’s family’s life
as a memoir for the family and
historical posterity. However,
there are differences between the
accounts in the books and her
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