tonight, she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with caroline frazier. >> caroline fraser is the editor of the library of america addition of laura ingalls wilder the little house books, and the author of three works of nonfiction. her latest book is where it fires, the american dreams of laura jane -- ingalls wilder. it was one of the new york times ten best books of the year. it won the 2018 pulitzer prize for biography. the national book critics circle award for biography. it also won the bio internationals 2018 plum top award. it was a finalist for the market clinton history prize given by the columbia university journalism school. caroline fraser has traveled the country for the past two years, giving talks on laura ingalls wilder, her daughter rosewater lane, and other related topics to groups large and small at schools, public libraries, conferences and universities. formerly on the steps of the new yorker, carolyn fraser's articles have also appeared in the new york review of books, the atlantic, the los angeles times book review and the london review of books, amo

tonight she will be having a conversation with caroline frazier. caroline frazier is the editor of the library america edition of laura ingalls wilder, the little house books. her latest book is "prairie fires, the american dreams of laura ingalls wilder." it was one of the "new york times" ten best books of the year and won the 2018 pulitzer prize for biography. the national book critics circle award for biography and the bio internationals 2018 plutarch award. carolyn frazier has traveled the country for the past two years giving talks on laura ingalls wilder, her daughter rose wilder lane and other topics to groups large and small at schools, mick libraries, conferences and universities. formally on the staff of the new yorker, carolyn frazier's articles have appears in the new york review of books, the atlantic, the los angeles times book review and the london review of books among other publications. she is also the author of "god's perfect child, living and dying in the christian science church" and dispatches from the conservation revolution

would anyone else like to ask caroline frazier a question? >> hello. do you have a favorite novel by laura ingalls wilder? if so, which one and why? >> i've always really loved "the long winter" which is her novel about the family's survival of this winter of 1880 to 1881 and it describes how the ingalls family was basically kind of trapped in their house for months at a time as the food dwindled and dwindled. they were down to their last sack of potatoes, i think, when this young man named almanzo wilder with another fellow in town made a kind of desperate journey to get the seed weed from a farmer outside of town and they risked their lives to go find that wheat. and this of course happened. it's beautifully written. it's an extraordinary survival tail and it's just very evoketive of the kind of terror and numbness that overtakes you, you know, when you're subjected to these kinds of conditions. and then of course it all comes right in the end through this act of heroism by the man she eventually marries. it's a wonderful novel. >> and did -- were th