Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for her classic novel Little Women and its sequels, Good Wives, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys. Encouraged by her family to write from an early age, she was raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott.

Growing up in this environment, Alcott was surrounded by many of the most prominent intellectuals of her day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller.