Caroline Fraser

Caroline Fraser is an American writer. She won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, a biography of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Caroline Fraser
Fraser at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes

Early life and education

Fraser was born in Seattle to a Christian Science family.[1] In 1979 she graduated from Mercer Island High School,[2] and in 1987 she earned a PhD in English and American literature from Harvard University for a thesis entitled A Perfect Contempt: The Poetry of James Merrill.[3]

Career

Formerly on the editorial staff of the New Yorker, Fraser's work has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and New York Review of Books, among others.[1] She is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church (1999), which describes the practices of the Christian Science church and her upbringing within it.[4][5] Whitney Balliett, himself a former Christian Scientist, described the book as a "critical history that ... casts a clear, merciless light" on the religion.[6]

Fraser's other books are Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (2009), which presents a broad vision of global ecological conservation;[7] and Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2017), the Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder.[8] She is also the editor of the two volumes of the Library of America's Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books (2012).

Awards and honors

Selected works

Books
  • Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Metropolitan Books, 2017.
  • (ed.), Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volumes 1 and 2, Library of America, 2012.
  • Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, Metropolitan Books, 2009.
  • God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, Metropolitan Books, 1999.

Articles

Notes
  1. "Biography", carolinefraser.net.
  2. Miller, Madison (27 April 2018). "Mercer Island Native Wins Pulitzer Prize for Biography". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  3. HOLLIS, Harvard Library.
  4. Gardner, Martin (22 August 1999). "Mind Over Matter". Los Angeles Times.
  5. Zaleski, Philip (22 August 1999). "Thinking Made It So, for a While", The New York Times.
  6. Balliett, Whitney (21 September 2000). "Mad Genuis", The New York Review of Books, 21 September 2000.
  7. Haupt, Lyanda Lynn (31 January 2010). "Wild in the street – and cul de sac". Los Angeles Times.
  8. Pennington, Gail (26 November 2017). "For 'Little House' Fans, book crafts a detailed story of Wilder". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  9. Katie Tuttle (March 15, 2018). "National Book Critics Circle Announces Winners for 2017 Awards". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on May 11, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  10. Pulitzer Prizes. "Caroline Fraser". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  11. Johnson, Christen A. (23 August 2018). "Superior accomplishments in literature: Chernow, Saunders, Fraser to be awarded Chicago Tribune literary prizes for 2018". Chicago Tribune.
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