Cheri Pierson Yecke, PhD, is an educator, historian, and author whose latest work invites readers to discover the real woman behind one of America's most treasured literary figures. Her book, Discovering Laura: The Historical Laura Ingalls Wilder, is the first in a three-volume historical nonfiction series exploring the lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo J. Wilder through meticulous historical research.