She spent years as a writer and editor with the Missouri Ruralist, penning a column called “As a Farm Woman Thinks.” By the mid-1920s, she had placed two articles about her farmhouse in Country Gentleman magazine, thanks to quite a bit of help from Rose (below, right). Now, Laura (below, left) had some chops as a writer herself, so it’s not as if she manned a typewriter for the first time at the age of 65 (in fact, she didn’t use a typewriter at all-Wilder preferred to write longhand). Three years later, Little House in the Big Woods was published. Rose was doing quite well for herself until 1929, when her finances took a dive during the stock market crash. When she wasn’t writing her own pieces, she took on ghostwriting and editing work, revamping books and stories for other writers who weren’t quite up to snuff. A few of her stories were even nominated for O. Her work showed up in magazines like Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post. Lane had already written biographies about Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Jack London, and Herbert Hoover. By this time, her only daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, already had a well-established career as a respected writer and editor. Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65 when she published her first book, the beloved Little House in the Big Woods.
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