*Alcott, Louisa May: -Louisa May Alcott(1832-1888) is a much beloved author of American literature, in particular the Little Women * trilogy, centered on the semiautobiographical March family (Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys). Best known in her time for Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl, a...

*Alcott, Louisa May: -Louisa May Alcott(1832-1888) is a much beloved author of American literature, in particular the Little Women * trilogy, centered on the semiautobiographical March family (Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys). Best known in her time for Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl, and Little Men, her obituary in the New York Times declared, "There was probably no writer among women better loved by the young than she."