Alison Arngrim

New York Times Best Selling author of “Confessions of A Prairie
Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being
Hated”, Alison Arngrim is best known to viewers world-wide for
her portrayal of the incredibly nasty “Nellie Oleson” on the much
loved, long running hit television series "Little House On The
Prairie," and continues to amuse audiences through her many film,
television and stage appearances.


Her one woman show “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”, which
started at Club Fez in New York in 2002, has now become a
world-wide phenomenon, having been performed to packed houses in
New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle,
and in France, where Alison performs entirely in French to
standing room only crowds in her all French version titled:
“Confessions d’une Garce de La Prairie”.


In 1986 when her friend and "Little House husband" co-star, Steve
Tracy, passed away due to complications of HIV/AIDS, Alison began
volunteering at AIDS Project Los Angeles. Her duties ranged from
working on the Southern California AIDS Hotline and the APLA food
bank, to chairing the steering committee of the volunteer
speakers bureau and developing “Safer Sex” workshops. She has
provided AIDS education to doctors, nurses, prison inmates,
service clubs, churches, department stores and schools, written
AIDS education articles for the magazines "Frontiers" and
"Designers West”, and spent seven years hosting the APLA
educational cable television show, "AIDS Vision". In 1992, Joel
Wachs presented Alison with a resolution by the Los Angeles City
Council commending her on her work on behalf of people living
with HIV and AIDS.


From 1989 through 1993 she served as Program Manager at Tuesday's
Child, an organization assisting children and families affected
by HIV and AIDS. From 1989 through 2003 she served as both
hostess and producer for the comedy stage at the AIDS Project Los
Angeles Annual Summer Party, where she helped to raise hundreds
of thousands of dollars for people living with HIV.


She currently serves as California Chair, National Spokesperson
and Founding Board Member on the National Advisory Board of The
National Association to Protect Children (www.PROTECT.org),
fighting to give children a legal and political voice in the war
against child abuse. As an activist for the improvement of child
protection laws, she has spoken before the California Senate and
worked on legislative and political campaigns in several states,
including Virginia and New York, in addition to PROTECT’s work on
federal legislation in Washington, D.C.


She has appeared on numerous television news programs discussing
the legal and political issues surrounding child abuse and
molestation. She came forward to tell the world about the sexual
abuse she suffered in her own life, during her 2004 interview on
Larry King Live. She continues to be interviewed on this and
other topics on Nancy Grace, CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, The Insider,
Court TV and Bill O’Reilly’s The Factor.


She takes pride in the fact that so many people enjoyed hating
her as a girl and is more than happy to give them the opportunity
to do so in the future.


"My fans have proudly taken on the name "Bonnetheads" to
designate their love of all things Prairie and many have posted
pictures of themselves wearing bonnets while they read along at
home," remarks Alison