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Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888)
American novelist
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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 of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Born Louisa May Alcott
29 November 1832
Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
6 March 1888 (aged 55)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Zodiac Sagittarius
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott
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Abby May and Amos Bronson Alcott · m. 1830

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