William Anderson (American writer)

For other people of a similar name, see William Anderson.

William Anderson (born 1952) is an American author, historian and lecturer. He is a specialist in the subject of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her times.

His interest in American frontier began after reading Little House on the Prairie. He is a director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum in Mansfield, Missouri, and he lives and works as a teacher in Michigan.

He has received many recognitions for his writings, including the Western History Association's Billington Award, the Robinson award of the South Dakota State Historical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities awards and National Council of Social Studies. In September 2002, he was invited to the White House for the third of Laura Bush's American Authors Symposia. The First Lady, a former teacher and librarian, assembled scholars, authors and historians for a conference on the frontier experience.

Works

About the Ingalls and Wilder families

As editor

  1. "Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House Books", Irene Smith
  2. "A Tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder", J.D.L.
  3. "Illustrating the Little House Books", Garth Williams
  4. "The Discovery of Laura Ingalls Wilder", Virginia Kirkus – Horn Book Magazine 29 (December 1953): 428–29
  5. "Christmas in the Little House Books", Marcia Dalphin
  6. "Laura's Gingerbread - Recipe"
  7. "A Letter from Laura Ingalls Wilder"[1]

Other books

Magazine articles

Articles by Anderson have appeared in several periodical publications.

References

  1. "The Horn Book's Laura Ingalls Wilder" (bookseller display). AbeBooks.com. Retrieved 2015-10-16.

External links

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