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Laura Ingalls Wilder (born February 7, 1867, Lake Pepin, Wisconsin, U.S.ā€”died February 10, 1957, Mansfield, Missouri) was an American author of childrenā€™s fiction based on her own youth in the American Midwest. She is best known for her book Little House on the Prairie (1935), part of a very popular series of ā€œLittle Houseā€ books that was later adapted into a television series that ran from 1974 to 1983. Laura Ingalls grew up in a...

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