Laura Ingalls Wilder is celebrated for her historical fiction series for young readers, drawing from her childhood experiences growing up in a pioneer family. Her writing vividly portrays the rugged yet rewarding realities of life on the American frontier. Beyond her acclaimed children's books, Wilder also maintained a newspaper column and kept a diary, offering further insight into her reflections and daily life, with a selection of this writing published posthumously.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for an adult audience and eventually served as the foundation for her popular Little House on the Prairie series includes not-safe-for-children tales that feature stark scenes of domestic abuse, love triangles gone awry and a man who lit himself on fire while drunk off whiskey.