It’s your literary talk show Food for Thought on S-D-P-B Radio – I’m your host Susan Hanson. Today we’re talking about two South Dakota homesteaders and cultural icons – author Laura Ingalls Wilder and African-American film pioneer Oscar Micheaux. Tomorrow, February 7th , marks the 167th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder – South Dakota historian John E. Miller has written two books on Wilder and is on the show to give us some insight into her writing and her life. February is also Black History month, and children’s author Michelle Green is writing a new book about Oscar Micheaux – she’ll tell us more about her research and why kids should know about Micheaux. That’s the lives and work, the facts and fiction of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Oscar Micheaux on today’s Food for Thought.