Caroline Fraser, author of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Friends’ annual Schewe Lecture is pleased to announce Caroline Fraser— editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series.  Fraser will reveal the grown-up story behind the influential author of childhood stories of American pioneer life, Laura Ingalls Wilder, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial reports to set the record straight.