Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an
American novelist best known as author of the novel
Little Women and its sequels
Little Men and
Jo's Boys.
Raised by her
transcendentalist parents,
Abigail May and
Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
Henry David Thoreau.
Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and
Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to
receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her
career, she sometimes used the pen name
A. M. Barnard.
Published in 1868,
Little Women is set in the Alcott family home,
Orchard House, in
Concord, Massachusetts
and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three
sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular
children's novel today. Alcott was an
abolitionist and a feminist. She died in Boston.
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