Rose Wilder Lane

Background

Lane, Rose Wilder was born on December 5, 1887 in De Smet, Dakota Ty. (now South Dakota). Daughter of Almanzo James and Laura Elizabeth (Ingalls) Wilder.

Education

Graduate Crowley (Louisiana) High School, 1904.

Career

Translator: The Dancer of Shamahka, 1923. Bastiat’s The Law, 1947. Author: Henry Ford’s Own Story, 1917.

Diverging Roads, 1919.

(with Frederick O’Brien) White Shadows in the South Seas, 1919. The Making of Herbert Hoover, 1920.

The Peaks of Shala, 1923. He Was a Manitoba, 1925; Hill-Billy (novel) 1926.

Cindy, 1928; Let the Hurricane Roar, 1933.

Old Home Town, 1935. Give Maine Liberty, 1936. Free Land, 1938; The Discovery of Freedom, 1943.

Editor: National Economics Council’s Review of Books.

Contributor to leading magazines Home: Danbury Connecticut also Harlingen, Texas.

Achievements

• Rose Wilder Lane has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Gillette Lane, March 24, 1909 (divorced 1918).

Father:

Almanzo James Wilder

Mother:

Laura Elizabeth (Ingalls) Wilder

Spouse:

Gillette Lane