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 Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series ''Little House on the Prairie'', published between 1932 and 1 ...

Early life and education

Fraser was born in Seattle to a

Christian Science Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes in ...

family."Biography"
carolinefraser.net. In 1979 she graduated from Mercer Island High School, and in 1987 she earned a PhD in English and American literature from

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for a thesis entitled ''A Perfect Contempt: The Poetry of James Merrill''.

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. 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. Whitney Balliett, himself a former Christian Scientist, described the book as a "critical history that ... casts a clear, merciless light" on the religion. Fraser's other books are ''Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution'' (2009), which presents a broad vision of global ecological conservation; and '' Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder'' (2017), the Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the life of

. 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

*2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography for ''Prairie Fires'' * 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for ''Prairie Fires'' *2018 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for ''Prairie Fires''

Selected works

Books

*''Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers'', Penguin Press, 2025. *''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

"Peter Rabbit and the Tale of a Fierce Bad Publisher"
''The Horn Book Magazine'', May 7, 2013.
"For Wolves on the Brink, A Hobbled Recovery Plan"
''Yale Environment 360'', October 25, 2012.
"Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Wolves"
''Los Angeles Review of Books'', October 10, 2012.
"The Crucial Role of Predators: A New Perspective on Ecology"
''Yale Environment 360'', September 15, 2011.
"As Tigers Near Extinction, A Last-Ditch Strategy Emerges"
''Yale Environment 360'', November 15, 2010.
"‘A Strange, Bloody, Broken Beauty’"
''The New York Review of Books'', May 27, 2010.
"'Rewilding' the World: A Bright Spot for Biodiversity"
''Yale Environment 360'', February 11, 2010.
"So Fresh and Bloody"
''London Review of Books'', December 18, 2008.
"Heart of Darkness"
''The New York Review of Books'', June 24, 2004.
"The Mormon Murder Case"
''The New York Review of Books'', November 21, 2002.
"Pretty in the Sunlight"
''The New York Review of Books'', October 4, 2001.

chapter one of ''God's Perfect Child'', ''The New York Times'', August 22, 1999.

''The Atlantic'', April 1995.
"The Prairie Queen"
''The New York Review of Books'', December 22, 1994.

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"You Need A Farm! Laura Ingalls Wilder And American Farming"
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Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Lane: The Beginning Of A Fruitful, Fateful Collaboration.”

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