At the time she was developing her philosophy, she was also helping her mother reconstruct her family history for a writing project. Her mother’s name was Laura Ingalls Wilder. Through a complicated (and for many decades hidden) collaboration, the two of them would produce some of the most beloved American children’s books of the twentieth century, works of libertarian fiction that rival the novels of Ayn Rand in their commercial appeal and ideological impact: the Little House series.
