Laura Ingalls Wilder: Start Your Research Here by Sarah Uthoff

This slim volume is the best introduction available. This series is heavily revised and updated with every edition, so try to find the newest one you can – 1976 is the original edition. It's updated every couple of years.

This widely owned biography is actually a novel Lane wrote loosely based on her life that MacBride changed a few details in to bring it a little closer to Rose’s actual life up to approximately 1920. Versions of the novel were also published as "Bachelor Girl" and "Diverging Roads" by Rose Wilder Lane.

Up to this point the only true scholarly focused exclusively on biography of Lane, not on her relationship with her mother. It reintroduced her to the scholarly world. If you read this book I HIGHLY recommend you also read "Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder" about her mother.

This Wilder biography also serves to balance some of the claims made in Holtz’s work. If you read one, read both.

Features a chapter on Rose and Albania.

This book is an edited set of letters between Rose Wilder Lane and Jasper Crane. Crane was an expert and leading figure in the plastics industry. He also was a conservative figure and that was the focus of his letters with Rose. His papers are in the Hagley Museum and Library.

A book that argues Rose Wilder Lane and her political beliefs were the driving force behind the "Little House" books.

This book is a sequel to "Little House Sampler." One edition came out as "A Laura Ingalls Wilder Reader." This is a collection of writings by the Ingalls/Wilder families including some by Rose Wilder Lane.

This is a collection of writings by the Ingalls/Wilder families including some by Rose Wilder Lane.

A Pulitzer Prize winning biography by the scholar behind the "Library of America" edition of Wilder's books. While nominally about Laura, it has a major focus on her daughter Rose Wilder Lane.

An authorized fictionalization of Rose Wilder Lane's diaries.

A travel novel based on Rose Wilder Lane's trip to Albania in the early 1920s.

Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, wrote a column titled "Rose Lane Says" from 1942 to 1945 for the Pittsburgh Courier, the largest circulating African American newspaper of the era. Her columns took on issues of race, equality, and liberty, offering deep analyses of themes also explored in her 1943 book, The Discovery of Freedom. The Pittsburgh Courier's vast circulation brought Lane's understanding of individual liberty to hundreds of thousands of readers. While Lane's writings and role as a collaborator on her mother's Little House books have garnered substantial attention of late, her columns for the Pittsburgh Courier, as well as her broader comments about and relationships with African Americans and civil rights, have not received their due. Her background in the rural Midwest was crucial in influencing the content of her individualist antiracism. Lane's writings at the Courier represented the most ambitious effort of any author during this period to promote laissez faire ideas to a black audience. Through her columns, Lane creatively linked her philosophical beliefs to issues of concern to her readers, including segregation, civil disobedience, entrepreneurship, and the struggle for liberty both overseas and at home. In Rose Lane Says, editors David T. Beito and Marcus Witcher provide annotations and an excellent introduction to Lane's columns, which until now have been next to impossible to locate. This volume includes eighty-four columns, in print for the first time since their original runs in the 1940s.

Through numerous short stories, novels such as Free Land, and political writings such as "Credo," Rose Wilder Lane forged a literary career that would be eclipsed by the shadow of her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose Little House books Lane edited. Lane's fifty-year career in journalism has remained largely unexplored.             This book recovers journalistic work by an American icon for whom scholarly recognition is long overdue. Amy Mattson Lauters introduces readers to Lane's life through examples of her journalism and argues that her work and career help establish her not only as an author and political rhetorician but also as a literary journalist. Lauters has assembled a collection of rarely seen nonfiction articles that illustrate Lane's talent as a writer of literary nonfiction, provide on-the-spot views of key moments in American cultural history, and offer sharp commentary on historical events.             Through this collection of Lane's journalism, dating from early work for Sunset magazine in 1918 to her final piece for Woman's Day set in 1965 Saigon, Lauters shows how Lane infused her writing with her particular ideology of Americanism and individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from government interference, thereby offering stark commentary on her times. Lane shares her experiences as an extra in a Douglas Fairbanks movie and interviews D.W. Griffith. She reports on average American women struggling to raise a family in wartime and hikes over the Albanian mountains between the world wars. Her own maturing conservative political views provide a lens through which readers can view debates over the draft, war, and women's citizenship during World War II, and her capstone piece brings us again into a culture torn by war, this time in Southeast Asia.             These writings have not been available to the reading public since they first appeared. They encapsulate important moments for Lane and her times, revealing the woman behind the text, the development of her signature literary style, and her progression as a writer. Lauters's introduction reveals the flow of Lane's life and career, offering key insights into women's history, the literary journalism genre, and American culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Through these works, readers will discover a writer whose cultural identity was quintessentially American, middle class, midwestern, and simplistic--and who assumed the mantle of custodian to Americanism through women's arts. The Rediscovered Writings of Rose Wilder Lane traces the extraordinary relationship between one woman and American society over fifty pivotal years and offers readers a treasury of writings to enjoy and discuss.