Caroline Fraser

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Caroline Fraser
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Fraser at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes.
Born Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Education Mercer Island High School
Alma mater Harvard University
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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.

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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

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "Biography", carolinefraser.net.
  2. Miller, Madison (April 27, 2018). "Mercer Island Native Wins Pulitzer Prize for Biography". Seattle Weekly . Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  3. HOLLIS, Harvard Library.
  4. Gardner, Martin (August 22, 1999). "Mind Over Matter". Los Angeles Times.
  5. Zaleski, Philip (August 22, 1999). "Thinking Made It So, for a While", The New York Times.
  6. Balliett, Whitney (September 21, 2000). "Mad Genius", The New York Review of Books, September 21, 2000.
  7. Haupt, Lyanda Lynn (January 31, 2010). "Wild in the street – and cul de sac". Los Angeles Times.
  8. Pennington, Gail (November 26, 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 August 17, 2018.
  11. Johnson, Christen A. (August 23, 2018). "Superior accomplishments in literature: Chernow, Saunders, Fraser to be awarded Chicago Tribune literary prizes for 2018". Chicago Tribune.

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