In her new biography of the fiercely independent author of “Little Women,” screenwriter Harriet Reisen draws an engrossing portrait of Louisa May Alcott’s life that will appeal to the legions of women ...

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: A PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY By Susan Cheever Simon & Schuster, $26 298 pages, illustrated Ever since the mid-20th century, when Madeleine Stern discovered that Louisa May Alcott had ...

New Englander Eve LaPlante’s genealogy has propelled her into becoming the biographer of some remarkable characters in America’s colonial past, including Puritan renegade Anne Hutchinson and Samuel ...

In her new biography of the fiercely independent author of “Little Women,” screenwriter Harriet Reisen draws a lively, engrossing portrait of Louisa May Alcott’s life that will appeal to the legions ...

Many readers of “Little Women” have fantasized about being Jo; a few about being Meg, Beth or Amy. After reading Susan Cheever’s biography of Louisa May Alcott, even fewer would want to change places ...

Louisa May Alcott inscribed her first book, "Flower Fables," published in 1854, to her mother with this acknowledgment: "Whatever beauty or poetry is to be found in my little book is owing to your ...

Louisa May Alcott has long been the favorite children's writer of literary women from Gertrude Stein to Nora Ephron. And almost every Alcott fan chooses Jo March, from "Little Women," as her favorite ...

"Little Women" is probably the most well loved book for girls ever written, but its author’s own life was certainly no children’s story. Louisa May Alcott and her family lived for years in genteel ...

A special encore broadcast of American Masters — Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women’ airs nationwide Sunday, May 20 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check ...

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is an interesting person for herself, as a representative of the generally unappreciated but fascinating Alcott family, and as an example of the period when the New England mind was ...

Reading Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women was one of Harriet Reisen’s seminal experiences growing up, as it is for many girls the world over (the book has been translated into over 50 languages ...