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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.
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]
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).
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