Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American writer best known for her novel Little Women. She was raised by her Transcendentalist parents A. Bronson and Abigail Alcott in New England. Louisa May's early life was spent in the wise company of American Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.