Caroline Fraser Quote

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 women were more important than they were or that we know more about them than we do.8 But when it comes to Wilder, we don’t have to pretend.

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 women were more important than they were or that we know more about them than we do.8 But when it comes to Wilder, we don’t have to pretend.

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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.