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Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is one of the more influential advocates of the American libertarian movement.
While most Americans know the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder from the Little House books, it was her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who was really the true writer of the family.
Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1968), was a prolific fiction writer, biographer and political theorist, as well as the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series of children's books.
Rose Wilder Lane – Biography. Rose Wilder was the first child and only daughter of Laura and Almanzo Wilder, born on December 5, 1886, in De Smet, South Dakota. She later moved to Mansfield, Missouri with her parents.
Cartoonist Peter Bagge takes on the life of another independent woman in Credo, his biography of pioneering libertarian Rose Wilder Lane (also known for being the daughter of Laura Ingalls...
Amidst the worst of times, Rose Wilder Lane dared to declare collectivism evil. She stood up for natural rights, the only philosophy which provided a moral basis for opposing tyranny everywhere. She celebrated old‑fashioned rugged individualism.
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum houses the Rose Wilder Lane Papers, which document her extraordinary life as a journalist and an author, and reveal the important role she played in her later years formulating and promoting Libertarian ideas.
American journalist, fiction writer, and proponent of individualist political philosophy. Pronunciation: Layne. Born Rose Wilder on December 5, 1886, in De Smet, Dakota Territory; died in Danbury, Connecticut, on October 29, 1968; daughter of Almanzo James Wilder (a farmer) and Laura Ingalls Wilder (a farmer and author); high school graduate ...
Biographer William Holtz writes, in The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane, that in this stark environment, “she found American women, far from home but marvelously competent, dealing with the civil devastation left by the Austrian army. Surrounded by starving and homeless children, an incompetent government, and disbanded ...
She was a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin from 1914 to 1918. Written during this period, and indicative of her admiration for American heroes, are Henry Ford 's Own Story (1917) and The Making of Herbert Hoover (1920), both panegyrics to men she considered archetypally American in their resourcefulness and individualism.