Caroline Fraser Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

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Caroline Fraser is a published American author.

Born in Seattle, Caroline has a Ph.D. from Harvard University that she obtained in English as well as American literature. She was formerly part of the editorial staff of The New Yorker. Today she has written two nonfiction books, which include God’s Perfect Child and the book Rewilding the World.

She has written for a variety of publications. These include The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, The London Review of Books, and more. She has gotten a PEN Award for being the Best Young Writer. She has also previously received PEN Northwest’s Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writer’s Residency. Caroline is married to her husband Hal Espen and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

She has written the biography Prairie Fires, which won a Pulitzer Prize. It also won a National Book Critics Circle Award for biography, BIO’s Plutarch Award, and the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune. Her book God’s Perfect Child was picked as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Los Angeles Time Book Review Best Book. Her writing has been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic Monthly, Outside Magazine, and The New York Review of Books, as well as others.

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a 2017 book by Caroline Fraser. If you loved the Little House books, then you will be familiar with the character of Laura. This book goes into the real story of her life as never told before, to the delight of the millions of fans of the book and the television show. There is much more to this little pioneer girl who made it through the many trials of the Great Plains as her family attempted to chase the American dream.

Drawing from letters, diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and public records, Caroline is able to fill in the gaps when it comes to Wilder’s biography and gets to the bottom of this adult story that is behind the much loved epic that revolved around pioneer life.

Set against almost a century of change, Wilder’s life was also quite packed full of drama and adversity. Their family settled down on the frontier in the middle of various land rush speculation, and while doing so, they went through tribulations that were near-Biblical. From drought to locusts to poverty and more, they went through all of this before Laura departed at eighteen years old so that she could marry Almanzo.

This is where the books conclude, but there is also more to the story. Laura and Almanzo fell into a lot of debt after going through a few personal tragedies. After that, they uprooted themselves once more, going across the country and taking on small jobs so that they could support the family. While middle aged, she started writing her own farm advice column, which her journalist daughter Rose wanted her to do.

At sixty years old, worried that she would lose everything in the Depression, she decided to turn to children’s books. There she could recast her childhood (which was very difficult) in a new vision of homesteading and became famous and rich as a result of this process.

Her life has been an incredible rags to riches story that is inspiring and interesting. Full of new discoveries and fresh insight, Prairie Fires goes into the complex woman that Laura is who defined this pioneer character and leaves readers with an engaging story that they won’t want to miss.

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers is a 2025 book written by Caroline Fraser. It was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Readers’ Favorite Nonfiction. This is the story of a true crime history of serial killers out in the Pacific Northwest, an investigation of how a new type of psychopath came out of a toxic landscape filled with deadly industrial violence.

Caroline Fraser is an author who grew up familiar with Ted Bundy, having lived in the shadow of one of the most well known serial killers of women to exist in American history. She spent her younger days surrounded by the lands he had made his hunting grounds and the mountain body dumps, all taking place in the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

In the seventies and the eighties, Bundy was actually just one among many different serial rapists and killers across the region. Why were there so many, and why were they so gruesome? Why was there the rise and then the fall of a serial killing epidemic?

Murderland maps out the lives as well as the careers of Bundy and his peers in chaos that include the I-5 Killer, the Green River Killer, the Night Stalker, Charles Manson, and the Hillside Strangler. Fraser’s death trip to the Northwest start to get to the bottom of a mystery and a pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Tacoma was one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the globe, but it was just one of many in the area.

As the investigation goes on, evidence gets stronger that the plumes of western smelters affected millions of lives while also warping different young minds and setting off an entire generation of serial killers. This nonfiction thriller goes above true crime voyeurism and will transport readers on an incredible quest into a dark heart of a real American psycho. Pick up a copy of this book to go along for the ride!