Louisa may alcott biography and pics
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Louisa May Alcott
American novelist (1832–1888)
Louisa May Alcott | |
|---|---|
Alcott, c. 1870 | |
| Born | (1832-11-29)November 29, 1832 Germantown, Pennsylvania U.S. |
| Died | March 6, 1888(1888-03-06) (aged 55) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting place | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Pen name | A.
M. Barnard |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | American Civil War |
| Genre | |
| Subject | Young adult fiction |
Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), 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, and Henry David Thoreau.
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