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, 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, Alcott 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 6,004,218 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.
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Among writers, Louisa May Alcott ranks 455 out of 5,794. Before her are William S. Burroughs, Pierre de Marivaux, Henri Barbusse, Sayyid Qutb, Lysias, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. After her are Herta Müller, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Harold Pinter, Tulsidas, Wu Cheng'en, and Thomas Paine.
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 449
1688 - 1763
HPI: 74.86
Rank: 450
1873 - 1935
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 451
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 452
445 BC - 380 BC
HPI: 74.82
Rank: 453
1883 - 1945
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 454
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 455
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 456
1848 - 1907
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 457
1930 - 2008
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 458
1532 - 1623
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 459
1500 - 1582
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 460
1737 - 1809
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 461
Among people born in 1832, Louisa May Alcott ranks 11. Before her are Wilhelm Wundt, Gustave Doré, Maximilian I of Mexico, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Edward Burnett Tylor, and William Crookes. After her are Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, George, King of Saxony, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, and Ármin Vámbéry. Among people deceased in 1888, Louisa May Alcott ranks 6. Before her are William I, German Emperor, Frederick III, German Emperor, John Bosco, Rudolf Clausius, and Carl Zeiss. After her are Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, John Stith Pemberton, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, François Achille Bazaine, and Ascanio Sobrero.
1832 - 1920
HPI: 81.02
Rank: 5
1832 - 1883
HPI: 80.05
Rank: 6
1832 - 1867
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 7
1832 - 1910
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 8
1832 - 1917
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 9
1832 - 1919
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 10
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 11
1832 - 1901
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 12
1832 - 1898
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 13
1832 - 1916
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 14
1832 - 1904
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 15
1832 - 1909
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 16
1832 - 1913
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 17
1797 - 1888
HPI: 83.37
Rank: 1
1831 - 1888
HPI: 80.11
Rank: 2
1815 - 1888
HPI: 79.85
Rank: 3
1822 - 1888
HPI: 77.33
Rank: 4
1816 - 1888
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 5
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 6
1808 - 1888
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 7
1831 - 1888
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 8
1839 - 1888
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 9
1813 - 1888
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 10
1811 - 1888
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 11
1812 - 1888
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Louisa May Alcott ranks 463 out of 15,968. Before her are Edgar Cayce (1877), Franklin Pierce (1804), William McKinley (1843), Warren G. Harding (1865), John Coltrane (1926), and James Coburn (1928). After her are Kim Basinger (1953), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Roy Scheider (1932), Mickey Rourke (1952), Barbara McClintock (1902), and Ernest Lawrence (1901).
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 457
1804 - 1869
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 458
1843 - 1901
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 459
1865 - 1923
HPI: 74.82
Rank: 460
1926 - 1967
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 461
1928 - 2002
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 462
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 463
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 464
1901 - 1980
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 465
1932 - 2008
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 466
1952 - Present
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 467
1902 - 1992
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 468
1901 - 1958
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 469
Among writers born in United States, Louisa May Alcott ranks 49. Before her are Thomas Wolfe (1900), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Sylvia Plath (1932), Tom Clancy (1947), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), and William S. Burroughs (1914). After her are T. S. Eliot (1888), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Susan Sontag (1933), Tennessee Williams (1911), Sidney Sheldon (1917), and Mary Higgins Clark (1927).
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 43
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 44
1932 - 1963
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 45
1947 - 2013
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 46
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 47
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 48
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 49
1888 - 1965
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 50
1871 - 1945
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 51
1933 - 2004
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 52
1911 - 1983
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 53
1917 - 2007
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 54
1927 - 2020
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 55