William Anderson (American writer)

His many recognitions for writing include the Western History Association's Billington Award,^[7] the Robinson award of the South Dakota State Historical Society,^[8] National Endowment for the Humanities awards and National Council for the Social Studies.^{[citation needed]} 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

• The Story of the Ingalls (Mansfield, MO: L.I.W. Home & Museum, 1967), 14 pp.,
  LCCN 93-215817
  – booklet
• Laura Wilder of Mansfield (1968); reissued 1974 by the L.I.W. Memorial Society – booklet
• A Wilder in the West: the story of Eliza Jane Wilder (De Smet, SD: L.I.W. Memorial Society, 1971) – booklet
• The Story of the Wilders (L.I.W. Home and Museum, 1973), reissued by the L.I.W. Memorial Society – booklet
• The Ingalls Family Album (L.I.W. Memorial Society, 1973),
  LCCN 77-356605
  – 20 and 24 pp. booklets
• Laura's Rose: the story of Rose Wilder Lane (L.I.W. Memorial Society, 1976) – booklet
• The Pepin Story of the Ingalls Family (Pepin, WI: L.I.W. Memorial Society, 1981), 20 pp. – The Story of the Ingalls (1967), revised in Pepin with permission of Anderson,
  LCCN 81-183450
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer, and Author (New York: Kipling Press, 1987), foreword by Ruth Alexander, 54 pp.,
  LCCN 88-138423
• The Walnut Grove Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Walnut Grove, MN: L.I.W. Museum, 1987) – booklet,
  LCCN 87-181609
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: a biography (Harper, 1988); 1992,
  LCCN 91-33805
• Little House Country: a photo guide to the home sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Kansas City, MO: Terrell Publ., 1989), photos by Leslie A. Kelly – 48 pp.,
  LCCN 89-46512
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: the Iowa story (Burr Oak, IA: L.I.W. Park & Museum, 1990) – booklet
• The Little House Guidebook (Harper, 1996), photos by Kelly – 96 pp.,
  LCCN 2002-279965
• Pioneer Girl: the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper, 1996), unpaged picture book, illus. Dan Andreasen,
  OCLC 35029708
• Laura's Album: a remembrance scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper, 1998) – "photographs and mementos accompany an account of the life and literary career",
  OCLC 865396917
• Prairie Girl: the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper, 2004), 74 pp., illus. Renée Graef,
  OCLC 51923921
• Laura Ingalls Wilder's Walnut Grove (Walnut Grove, MN: L.I.W. Museum, 2013), 96 pp.,
  LCCN 2015-373290

• The Horn Book's Laura Ingalls Wilder: articles about and by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams, and the Little House Books (Boston, Horn Book, 1987), 48 pp.,
  LCCN 87-181392

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"[9]

• A Little House Sampler (U. of Nebraska, 1988), Ingalls Wilder and Wilder Lane,
  LCCN 87-19208
• The Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook (Harper, 1995),
  OCLC 31433784
• A Little House Reader: a collection of writings (Harper, 1998), Ingalls Wilder,
  LCCN 97-2767

• Michigan's
  LCCN 87-404646
• The World of
  LCCN 95-24373
• The World of the
  LCCN 98-156063
• River Boy: the story of
  OCLC 459795517
• M is for Mount Rushmore: a South Dakota alphabet (Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2005), illus. Cheryl Harness,
  OCLC 57201825
• V is for von Trapp: a musical family alphabet (Ann Arbor, MI: Sleeping Bear, 2010), illus. Linda Dockey Graves,
  OCLC 553368554