Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for her novels Little Women (1868) and Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1888). (1886). Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, both transcendentalists, raised her in New England, where she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Alcott's family struggled financially, and she began working at a young age to help support them while simultaneously seeking an outlet in writing. In the 1860s, she began to receive critical acclaim for her work. Early in her career, Alcott utilized various pen identities, including A. M. Barnard, under which she published gruesome short tales and adult sensation novels about passion and revenge.

Throughout her life, Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist who was active in reform organizations such as temperance and women's suffrage. Alcott did not marry. On March 6, 1888, she died of a stroke, two days after her father in Boston.

Nationality: U.S