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 ...

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 ...

Over the past twenty five years Susan Cheever has written brazenly honest biographies and memoirs, ranging in subjects from her own struggles with alcoholism, sex addiction, and motherhood to her ...

ONEIDA -- Oneida Public Library celebrates the multi-faceted Louisa May Alcott with five distinctive programs in May. To reflect Alcott's life and times, the library is collaborating with the Madison ...

This video, promoting a PBS biopic that ties into the recent biography “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women,’ ” by Harriet Reisen, is called “Five Things You Don’t Know About Louisa May ...

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women and its sequels Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys.

Louisa May Alcott is no longer regarded as a sentimental author for girls, but as a pioneering writer of the first rank. Photos courtesy of Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Getty/Westend61; Photo ...

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 ...

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS If you met her, you might think Louisa May Alcott was a contemporary. The ...

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 ...