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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. How old was louisa may alcott when she wrote little woman How old was louisa may alcott when she wrote little woman Louisa may alcott education Louisa may alcott achievements Louisa may alcott husband Little women short summary 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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