Caroline Fraser

Caroline Fraser is an American writer. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and New York Review of Books, among others.^[1] She is the author of God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church (1999), and Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (2009).

Whitney Balliett, himself a former Christian Scientist, described Fraser's God's Perfect Child as a "critical history that ... casts a clear, merciless light" on the religion.^[2]

Fraser was born in Seattle to a Christian Science family.^[1] She obtained a PhD in English and American literature in 1987 from Harvard University, for a thesis entitled A Perfect Contempt: The Poetry of James Merrill.^[3]

Selected works

Books

• (ed.), Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volumes 1 and 2, Library of America, 2012.
• Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, Metropolitan Books, 2009.
• God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, Metropolitan Books, 1999.

Articles

• "Peter Rabbit and the Tale of a Fierce Bad Publisher", The Horn Book Magazine, 7 May 2013.
• "For Wolves on the Brink, A Hobbled Recovery Plan", Yale Environment 360, 25 October 2012.
• "Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Wolves", Los Angeles Review of Books, 10 October 2012.
• "The Crucial Role of Predators: A New Perspective on Ecology", Yale Environment 360, 15 September 2011.
• "As Tigers Near Extinction, A Last-Ditch Strategy Emerges", Yale Environment 360, 15 November 2010.
• "‘A Strange, Bloody, Broken Beauty’", The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2010.
• "'Rewilding' the World: A Bright Spot for Biodiversity", Yale Environment 360, 11 February 2010.
• "So Fresh and Bloody", London Review of Books, 18 December 2008.
• "Heart of Darkness", The New York Review of Books, 24 June 2004.
• "The Mormon Murder Case", The New York Review of Books, 21 November 2002.
• "Pretty in the Sunlight", The New York Review of Books, 4 October 2001.
• "Mary Baker Eddy: 'Mere Historic Incidents'", chapter one of God's Perfect Child, The New York Times, 22 August 1999.
• "Suffering Children and the Christian Science Church", The Atlantic, April 1995.
• "The Prairie Queen", The New York Review of Books, 22 December 1994.

Notes

Further reading

• Personal website.
• God's Perfect Child, book website.
• Rewilding the World, book website.
• "Caroline Fraser", Yale Environment 360.
• "Caroline Fraser", The New Yorker.
• "Caroline Fraser", The New York Review of Books.