Caroline Fraser Quote

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 her. That emotion was absent in Free Land, relegating it to homesteading soap opera. Its loosely linked anecdotes were joined not by familial love but by Lane's, and the 's, ideology.

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 her. That emotion was absent in Free Land, relegating it to homesteading soap opera. Its loosely linked anecdotes were joined not by familial love but by Lane's, and the 's, ideology.

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About Caroline Fraser

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.