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Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886–October 30, 1968) was an American writer and the daughter of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Introduction

Rose Wilder Lane was born in De Smet, Dakota Territory, the first (and only surviving) child of Laura Elizabeth Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder. Despite inheriting the pioneering spirit of her forebearers, she was quickly drawn away from a rural lifestyle and traveled much of the world during her lifetime. She became a well-known journalist, political theorist, world traveler and novelist. Her career as a writer began around 1910 and extended through the Vietnam War, during which she served as a war correspondent. She married salesman and occasional newspaperman Claire Gillette Lane in 1909, and they had one child, a boy, who died shortly after birth around 1910. She and her husband divorced in 1918. Lane never remarried, although she informally "adopted" and educated several young people throughout her life. She is considered to be a seminal force behind what has evolved into the American Libertarian Party.

Early life and schooling

Despite being overshadowed by her mother's fame today, Lane's own accomplishments were remarkable. As a child, she moved with her parents to Minnesota, Florida, back to South Dakota and eventually to Mansfield, Missouri, where her parents established a farm. By all accounts a brilliant student, she attended high schools in Mansfield and Crowley, Louisiana (where her father's sister Eliza Jane Wilder Thayer had settled), graduating in 1904. Her intellect and ambition were shown by the successful compression of three years of Latin into one, and by graduating at the top of her high school class. Despite this academic success, her parents' financial situation put college out of the question.

Early Career, Marriage, Divorce

After graduation, Lane returned to her parents'farm and assessed the limited options that a life in Mansfield could offer.. She decided to take matters into her own hands. She learned telegraphy at the Mansfield railroad station (the station master was the father of a school friend) and before long, had relocated to Kansas City for a Western Union job as a telegrapher. After spending several years as a telegrapher in Missouri, Indiana and California, Lane quit telegraphy around the time of her marriage in 1909. For the next few years, she lived a somewhat vagabond life, traveling around the US and working on various marketing and promotional schemes with her husband, as well picking up the occasional free-lance newspaper writing job to pay the bills.

Returning to California in about 1912, she partnered with her husband for several more years in successfully sell millions of acres of farm land in what is now the San Jose/Silicon Valley areas. Lane turned out to be the better salesman in the partnership, which contributed to several periods of separation and eventually a divorce. By 1915, the threat of war had diminished the real estate market, and Lane accepted a stopgap position as a editorial assistant on the staff of the San Francisco Bulletin. The stopgap quickly turned into a watershed. She immediately caught the attention of her editors not only through her talents as a writer in her own right, but also as an extremely skillful editor for other writers. Before long, Rose Wilder Lane's photo and byline were running in The Bulletin daily. She easily churned out formulaic fiction that would run for weeks at a time, and captivated readers with multi-part human interest articles and biographical studies of the rich and famous. Her studies of Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Jack London and Herbert Hoover were pubished in book form. By about 1918, Lane was confident enough in her abilities to quit The Bulletin and launch her career as a free-lance writer.

Launches free-lance writing career

From the late 1910s through the 1930s, which represented the peak of her professional writing career, Lane's short stories and novels were often nominated for O. Henry Awards and other literary honors, she was frequently anthologized, and was regularly featured in leading publications such as Harper's, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping and Ladies' Home Journal. She was reputed to be one of the highest-paid women writers in the US. Lane was generous to a fault with her friends and family, which often resulted in her quickly running through large amounts of money, with not much left to show for it. She also suffered periodic bouts of self-doubt and depression in mid-life, self-diagnosing herself as manic-depressive (now more commonly known as bi-polar disorder).

Lane's work as a traveling war correspondent began with a stint with the Red Cross Publicity Bureau in post-WWI Europe and continued though 1965, when at the age of 78, she was reporting from Vietnam for Woman's Day Magazine, providing "a woman's point of view." During her Red Cross travels, Lane became enamored with Albania, and lived there for several long periods during the 1920s, spaced between sojourns to Paris and her parents' farm in Missouri. She informally adopted a young Albanian boy whom she claimed saved her life on a dangerous mountain trek, and later sponsored his education at the University of Oxford in England. After about 1928, Lane returned to the U.S., living on her parents' farm until about 1937, when she purchased a rural home outside of Danbury, Connecticut, and resided there until her death.

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