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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As our own Laura Miller said in “The Magician’s Book,” there are two kinds of readers: “those who liked ‘Little Women’ and those who preferred ‘The Phantom Tollbooth.'” But whichever team you happen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In her new book, the historian Tiya Miles shows how formative outdoor experiences helped diverse women — from Harriet Tubman to Indigenous athletes — transcend prescribed social and gender roles. By ...