Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

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, such as 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 5,572,249 page views. Her biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Louisa May Alcott is the 455th most popular writer (up from 975th in 2019), the 463rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,064th in 2019) and the 49th 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.