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Caroline Fraser

Biography

Caroline Fraser

Caroline Fraser is the editor of the Library of America edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books, and the author of REWILDING THE WORLD and GOD'S PERFECT CHILD. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times and the London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.

Caroline Fraser

Books by Caroline Fraser

by Caroline Fraser - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls --- the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books.