Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott 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, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

29 November 1832

Born on the same birth day (29 November): Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu • Brian Baumgartner • Csaba Pléh • Gemma Chan • Gertrude Jekyll • Hinton Battle • Joe Weider • John Ambrose Fleming • John Mahama • Julius Raab • Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence • Michael Craze • Michael Howard (historian) • Sheldon Richardson • William Crichton (engineer) • Willie Morris

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