Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and political writer best known for her role in shaping and editing the Little House books written by her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Born in De Smet, South Dakota, Lane worked as a reporter and fiction writer in the early twentieth century before becoming an influential advocate of libertarian political thought. She was a frequent contributer of fiction, political essays, and travel writing columns to such periodicals as Harper’s, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Sunset, Country Gentleman, and reported as a war correspondent from Vietnam in 1965 for Woman's Day. She also wrote a notable weekly column in the Pittsburg Courier, a leading African American publication, titled "Rose Lane Says" from 1942 to 1945. Her articles and books, including The Discovery of Freedom, helped articulate ideas about individual liberty and limited government and contributed to the development of modern American libertarianism.

Less is known about Virginia E. Brastow (1874-1952), who was appointed by Fremont Older in 1900 as city editor of the San Francisco Bulletin. After retiring as an editor, Virginia became a columnist and later correspondent for San Francisco newspapers. She also revised and edited The Fantastic City: Memoirs of the Social and Romantic Life of Old San Francisco, written by socialite Amelia Ransome Neville.