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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 Fraser at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes. | |
| Born | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Education | Mercer Island High School |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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Early life and education
editFraser 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
editFormerly 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
edit- 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]
Selected works
editBooks
edit- 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
edit- "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.
- "Mary Baker Eddy: 'Mere Historic Incidents'", chapter one of God's Perfect Child, The New York Times, August 22, 1999.
- "Suffering Children and the Christian Science Church", The Atlantic, April 1995.
- "The Prairie Queen", The New York Review of Books, December 22, 1994.
Notes
edit- ^ a b "Biography", carolinefraser.net.
- ^ Miller, Madison (April 27, 2018). "Mercer Island Native Wins Pulitzer Prize for Biography". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
- ^ HOLLIS, Harvard Library.
- ^ Gardner, Martin (August 22, 1999). "Mind Over Matter". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Zaleski, Philip (August 22, 1999). "Thinking Made It So, for a While", The New York Times.
- ^ Balliett, Whitney (September 21, 2000). "Mad Genius", The New York Review of Books, September 21, 2000.
- ^ Haupt, Lyanda Lynn (January 31, 2010). "Wild in the street – and cul de sac". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Pennington, Gail (November 26, 2017). "For 'Little House' Fans, book crafts a detailed story of Wilder". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Pulitzer Prizes. "Caroline Fraser". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
- ^ Johnson, Christen A. (August 23, 2018). "Superior accomplishments in literature: Chernow, Saunders, Fraser to be awarded Chicago Tribune literary prizes for 2018". Chicago Tribune.
External links
edit- Personal website.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- "Caroline Fraser", Yale Environment 360.
- "Caroline Fraser", The New Yorker.
- "Caroline Fraser", The New York Review of Books.
- "You Need A Farm! Laura Ingalls Wilder And American Farming" Fraser, Caroline (November 7, 2017). Accessed July 29, 2019.
- “Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Lane: The Beginning Of A Fruitful, Fateful Collaboration.” Fraser, Caroline (April 17, 2018). Accessed July 29, 2019.