Laura Ingalls Wilder fictionalized her life in the Little House on the Prairie books, which were adapted into the hit 1974 TV series, but neither work tells Wilder’s real story Wilder’s real-life story and family were more complicated than anything ...

On Saturday, the Association for Library Service to Children voted to strip author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from its award. Wilder is most famous for her book series, “Little House on the Prairie.” In its decision to remove Wilder’s name from ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honor, from the Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of “Little House on the Prairie” about what the reader found to be a ...

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a significant achievement award in children’s literature presented by a division of the American Library Assn., will be renamed because of the author’s “stereotypical attitudes” toward Native Americans and African ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Louise A. Jackson of Tyler is the recipient of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Children’s Literature Award. The award is presented by the Association for Library Service to Children, whose website notes the award is presented to an author ...

Should writers who wrote long ago, describing life in the past, be held to 21st century standards of political correctness? The question has arisen many times – most recently about Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was born in 1867 and died in 1957. She is best ...