caroline fraser
praire fires: the american dreams of laura ingalls WILDER (2018)
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Winner of the Plutarch Award.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1867) was the author of the immensely popular ‘Little House on the Prairie’ children’s books, published from 1932 to 1943. They were loosely based on her own dramatic childhood experiences.
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Caroline Fraser has a PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and was formerly a member of the editorial staff at the New Yorker magazine. In addition to her biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, she has written books on Christian Science (a church in which she was brought up), and on the re-wilding conservation movement. she has also contributed t the London Review of Books, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Review of Books.