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But as adults, we have come to see that her autobiographical novels were not only fictionalized but brilliantly edited, in a profound act of American myth-making and self-transformation. As unpublishe...

Caroline Fraser

But as adults, we have come to see that her autobiographical novels were not only fictionalized but brilliantly edited, in a profound act of American myth-making and self-transformation. As unpublishe...

In life, loss was the engine that set Wilder's fiction in motion. Exile propelled the powerful emotional current of the Little House books, an intensely felt nostalgia for people and places lost to he...

Caroline Fraser

In life, loss was the engine that set Wilder's fiction in motion. Exile propelled the powerful emotional current of the Little House books, an intensely felt nostalgia for people and places lost to he...

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About Author
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.

It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just to see what might happen.

Caroline Fraser

It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just to see what might happen.

Often, if you want to write about women in history, the novelist Hilary Mantel has said, you have to distort history to do it, or substitute fantasy for facts; you have to pretend that individual wome...

Caroline Fraser

Often, if you want to write about women in history, the novelist Hilary Mantel has said, you have to distort history to do it, or substitute fantasy for facts; you have to pretend that individual wome...

Rose Wilder Lane, Ayn Rand, and Isabel Mary Paterson each published philosophical works early that year. Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom appeared in January 1943; Rand’s The Fountainhead followed in A...

Caroline Fraser

Rose Wilder Lane, Ayn Rand, and Isabel Mary Paterson each published philosophical works early that year. Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom appeared in January 1943; Rand’s The Fountainhead followed in A...

She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.

Caroline Fraser

She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.