Though it has remained eminently popular since its first publication, the novel saw its profile reach new heights with the 1974 Little House on the Prairie television series, starring Melissa Gilbert and Michael Landon, which sparked renewed interest in Wilder's "Little House" series as a whole. While largely autobiographical, the "Little House" series has been generally classified as historical fiction, due in part to mild embellishments on the part of Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who officially served as her mother's co-collaborator and editor-although the extent of her assistance remains unclear and subject to debate. Touching upon issues of family, race, and the vast emptiness of the Kansas prairie, Wilder captures the vanished lifestyle of the American frontiersman through the voice of her young narrator, Laura. Chronicling her family's journey and eventual travails in the rough wilds during the early colonization of America's Midwest, Little House on the Prairie specifically captures the years of 18, a period when Wilder's family left their compound in Pepin, Wisconsin, to settle near Independence, Kansas, in the remains of the Osage Diminished Reserve. The third installment of Wilder's eight novel series about her family's struggle to build a meager life on the American frontier in the late nineteenth century, Little House on the Prairie is generally considered to be Wilder's strongest work. Part of the broader "Little House" series of novels, Wilder's Little House on the Prairie (1935) is an autobiographical account of her own childhood that has become enshrined as one of the preeminent pieces of American juvenile fiction. The following entry presents commentary on Wilder's novel Little House on the Prairie (1935) through 2000. (Full name Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder) American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and author of juvenile historical fiction.
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