Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957)

On February 7th in 1867 author Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in rural Wisconsin. She wrote the books which were the basis for the longrunning TV series Little House on the Prairie. She died Feb 10, 1957, 3 days after her 90th birthday.

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Jack London ( January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney), was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life".[citation needed] He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss.

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Judith Krantz (born on January 9, 1928 in New York City), is an American novelist

Judith Krantz (born Judith Tarcher on January 9, 1928 in New York City), is an American novelist who writes in the romance genre. Her works include Scruples, Princess Daisy, and Till We Meet Again.

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