Caroline Fraser will be speaking at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum on Monday, September 3, 2018, at 2:00 p.m.
http://www.carolinefraser.net/index.htm
Prairie Fires` website
*WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY
for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, which tapped archival research to draw a fuller portrait of the author of the “Little House on the Prairie” books.
*WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
*WINNER OF THE 2018 PLUTARCH AWARD
*Winner of 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for best biography
Biography
Caroline Fraser was born in Seattle and holds a PhD from Harvard University in English and American literature. Formerly on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, she is the author of three nonfiction books, the award-winning Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, and Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, all published by Metropolitan Books. She served as editor of the Library of America edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, Outside Magazine, and The London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, Hal Espen.
Prairie Fires has been named one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of the Year.
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of LAURA INGALLS WILDER – 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 story of her life has never been fully told. The Little House books were not only fictionalized but brilliantly edited, a profound act of myth-making and self-transformation. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser—the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series—masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books and uncovering the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life.
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum is located ¼ mile off Interstate 80, Exit 254, West Branch, Iowa. The Museum is open from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily. The talk is free with paid museum admission.
For more, visit the official book website at https://prairiefiresbook.com/
