1832 - 1888
Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A. M. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louisa May Alcott has received more than 6,642,618 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Louisa May Alcott is the 434th most popular writer (up from 455th in 2019), the 443rd most popular biography from United States (up from 463rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Writer.
Louisa May Alcott is most famous for her novel Little Women, which follows the lives of four sisters as they grow up in the American Civil War.
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Among writers, Louisa May Alcott ranks 434 out of 5,755. Before her are Louis Aragon, Vladimir Vysotsky, Bohumil Hrabal, Ennius, Louise de La Vallière, and Constantine P. Cavafy. After her are Traudl Junge, Yunus Emre, Tennessee Williams, Patrick Modiano, Christopher Marlowe, and Enid Blyton.
1897 - 1982
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 428
1938 - 1980
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 429
1914 - 1997
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 430
239 BC - 169 BC
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 431
1644 - 1710
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 432
1863 - 1933
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 433
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 434
1920 - 2002
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 435
1240 - 1321
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 436
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 437
1945 - Present
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 438
1564 - 1593
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 439
1897 - 1968
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 440
Among people born in 1832, Louisa May Alcott ranks 10. Before her are Lewis Carroll, Nikolaus Otto, Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, and William Crookes. After her are Ivan Shishkin, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, José Echegaray, George, King of Saxony, Jules Ferry, and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1888, Louisa May Alcott ranks 7. Before her are William I, German Emperor, John Bosco, Frederick III, German Emperor, Rudolf Clausius, Carl Zeiss, and John Stith Pemberton. After her are Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, François Achille Bazaine, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, and Paul Langerhans.
1832 - 1898
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 4
1832 - 1891
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 5
1832 - 1867
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 6
1832 - 1883
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 7
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 8
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 9
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 10
1832 - 1898
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 11
1832 - 1901
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 12
1832 - 1916
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 13
1832 - 1904
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 14
1832 - 1893
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 15
1832 - 1909
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 16
1797 - 1888
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 1
1815 - 1888
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 2
1831 - 1888
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 3
1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 4
1816 - 1888
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 5
1831 - 1888
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 6
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 7
1808 - 1888
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 8
1839 - 1888
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 9
1813 - 1888
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 10
1811 - 1888
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 11
1823 - 1888
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 12
1847 - 1888
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 13
Among people born in United States, Louisa May Alcott ranks 443 out of 18,182. Before her are Babe Ruth (1895), Oliver Stone (1946), George Clooney (1961), Stephen Hillenburg (1961), Milton H. Erickson (1901), and Joan Crawford (1904). After her are Gordon Allport (1897), Tennessee Williams (1911), Cliff Burton (1962), Montgomery Clift (1920), The Notorious B.I.G. (1972), and John Wayne Gacy (1942).
1895 - 1948
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 437
1946 - Present
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 438
1961 - Present
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 439
1961 - 2018
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 440
1901 - 1980
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 441
1904 - 1977
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 442
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 443
1897 - 1967
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 444
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 445
1962 - 1986
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 446
1920 - 1966
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 447
1972 - 1997
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 448
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 449
Among writers born in United States, Louisa May Alcott ranks 46. Before her are Dan Brown (1964), Sylvia Plath (1932), Paul Auster (1947), Alvin Toffler (1928), Tom Clancy (1947), and Gertrude Stein (1874). After her are Tennessee Williams (1911), Richard Bach (1936), William S. Burroughs (1914), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), Ellen G. White (1827), and Robert A. Heinlein (1907).
1964 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 40
1932 - 1963
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 41
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 42
1928 - 2016
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 43
1947 - 2013
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 44
1874 - 1946
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 45
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 46
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 47
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 48
1914 - 1997
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 49
1804 - 1864
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 50
1827 - 1915
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 51
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 52