Caroline Fraser

Selected Works

Conservation
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
"With this book, Fraser does for rewilding what David Quammen did for island biogeography in his seminal "The Song of the Dodo." Fraser uses lucid prose, engaging stories and personal experience to make the ideas accessible and vital to a wide audience."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
History
God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church
"Eye-opening...The most powerful and persuasive attack on Christian Science to have been written in this century."--Martin Gardner, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Review
"'A Strange, Bloody, Broken Beauty,'" New York Review of Books, 27 May 2010
A review of Joyce Carol Oates' Dear Husband, and Little Bird of Heaven
"So Fresh and Bloody," London Review of Books 18 December 2008
Review of Red Mandarin Dress, by Qiu Xiaolong
Essay
"Heart of Darkness," The New York Review of Books
An essay examining the recent fiction of Joyce Carol Oates in light of her preoccupation with violence and victimhood.
"The Mormon Murder Case," The New York Review of Books
The 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre--one of the worst mass murders in American history--was carried out and then concealed by Mormons.


Biography

Caroline Fraser was born in Seattle and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in English and American literature. Formerly on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, she has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Outside Magazine, Allure, and The Los Angeles Times Book Review, among other publications. Her essays and reviews also appear frequently in The New York Review of Books. She has received a PEN Award for Best Young Writer and numerous prizes for her poetry. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, Hal Espen.

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