Caroline Fraser.
caroline fraser: LAURA INGALLS WILDER BIOGRAPHY
praire fires: the american dreams of laura ingalls WILDER (2018)
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1867) was the author of the immensely popular ‘Little House on the Prairie’ children’s books, published from 1932 to 1943. They were loosely based on her own childhood experiences of a period of extraordinary adversity and drama - embracing the Homestead Act, the Indian Wars, the Dust Bowl and the Depression. Wilder grew up to be a teacher and then an author. She was assisted in her writing by her daughter Lane.
Caroline Fraser, who is the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House on the Prairie series, has drawn on letters, diaries, and financial records to produce an athoritative account of Wilder’s life. The Sunday Times wrote of the book: 'Just as gripping as the original novels . . . As pacy and vivid as one of Wilder's own narratives, this surprising biography is immensely revealing both about Wilder and about America's founding myths'.
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Caroline Fraser has a PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and was formerly a member of the editorial staff at the New Yorker magazine. In addition to her biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, she has written books on Christian Science (a church in which she was brought up), and on the re-wilding conservation movement. she has also contributed t the London Review of Books, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Review of Books.
