![]() Fraser illuminates how Wilder’s wildly popular ‘Little House’ series was a ‘profound act of American myth-making and self-transformation’ by a woman who had reimagined her frontier life as epic and uplifting, with disappointment and loss transformed into parable. The citation read: “Extensively researched, PRAIRIE FIRES reflects Fraser’s deep knowledge of westward expansion, and captures the full arc of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life in three acts: poverty, struggle, and reinvention. Caroline Fraser has brilliantly recast our understanding of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life and times, and affirmed her influence in shaping the myth of the iconic West.”Īnd on March 27, the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced that Prairie Fires was the finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize for a book “that best combines intellectual distinction with felicity of expression.” ![]() Describing the work as “a captivating biography,” NBCC board member Elizabeth Taylor declared, “Laura Ingalls Wilder endures, and now future generations can read Fraser’s marvelous biography and understand her vision of how Ingalls dreams of the frontier. ![]() Prairie Fires wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyĪt a ceremony in New York on March 15, Prairie Fires won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. ![]()
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