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Louisa May Alcott

1832 - 1888

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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. Encouraged by her family, Louisa began writing from an early age. Louisa's family experienced financial hardship, and while Louisa took on various jobs to help support the family from an early age, she also sought to earn money by writing. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louisa May Alcott is the 95th most popular writer (up from 617th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from United States (up from 630th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Writer.

Louisa May Alcott is most famous for her novel Little Women, which follows the lives of four sisters as they grow up in the American Civil War.

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Among writers, Louisa May Alcott ranks 95 out of 7,302. Before her are George Bernard Shaw, Maurice Maeterlinck, Kurt Vonnegut, Giorgio Vasari, Milan Kundera, and Heinrich Heine. After her are Erich Maria Remarque, Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Paulo Coelho, Virginia Woolf, and Guy de Maupassant.

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Among people born in 1832, Louisa May Alcott ranks 4. Before her are Édouard Manet, Gustave Eiffel, and Maximilian I of Mexico. After her are Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Nikolaus Otto, Gustave Doré, José Echegaray, Edward Burnett Tylor, and Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. Among people deceased in 1888, Louisa May Alcott ranks 2. Before her is William I, German Emperor. After her are John Stith Pemberton, John Bosco, Frederick III, German Emperor, Rudolf Clausius, Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Carl Zeiss, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Nikolay Przhevalsky, François Achille Bazaine, and Anton Mauve.

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Among people born in United States, Louisa May Alcott ranks 80 out of 20,380. Before her are Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), Danny DeVito (1944), James Stewart (1908), Barbara Bush (1925), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), and Warren Buffett (1930). After her are Patrick Swayze (1952), Charles Lindbergh (1902), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Helen Keller (1880), B.B. King (1925), and Brigham Young (1801).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Louisa May Alcott ranks 11. Before her are F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), and Kurt Vonnegut (1922). After her are Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Jack London (1876), Stephen King (1947), Ezra Pound (1885), Dr. Seuss (1904), and Henry David Thoreau (1817).

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