"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."


 Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder (born February 7, 1867) first gained popularity as a writer with "As a Farm Woman Thinks," her column in a local paper. About two decades later, she used her childhood memories to write her beloved, autobiographical novel, Little House in the Big Woods.