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.
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
- 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography for Prairie Fires[9]
- 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Prairie Fires[10]
- 2018 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Prairie Fires[11]
