Laura Winthrop Johnson

Laura Winthrop Johnson (September 13, 1825 – January 14, 1889) was an American author and poet.

Laura Winthrop was born on September 13, 1825 in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Francis Bayard Winthrop and Elizabeth Woolsey, sister of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Her siblings included novelist Theodore Winthrop and military lawyer William Winthrop. As a child, she was the subject of the poem "To Laura W- Two Years of Age" by Nathaniel Parker Willis. In 1846, she married W. Templeton Johnson.

She accompanied her husband on a lengthy trip to Wyoming. At the suggestion of her friend Annie Adams Fields, she kept a travel journal that was published in Lippincott's Magazine in June and July 1875 and as the volume Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance in 1889. It contains vivid descriptions of Laramie Peak, the Sun Dance, Sitting Bull, and Red Cloud.

Winthrop Johnson died on 14 January 1889 in Staten Island.