Background
Fraser was born in Seattle to a Christian Science family.
Fraser was born in Seattle to a Christian Science family.
She obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in English and American literature in 1987 from Harvard University for a thesis entitled A Perfect Contempt: The Poetry of James Merrill.
A former staff writer for the New Yorker, her work has also appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and New York Review of, among others Whitney Balliett (1926–2007), 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.