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 ...

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 ...

How many shows has Louisa May Alcott written? Louisa May Alcott has written 4 shows including A Girl Called Jo (Source Material), Little Women (Source Material), Little Women (Source Material), Little ...

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 ...

Watercolor of Orchard House by May Alcott Nieriker (c. 1860) (all images courtesy Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House) As a painter who left Concord, Massachusetts to study art in three European cities, ...

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 ...

The week between Christmas and New Year’s has typically been a dead one in TV land. Save for football games, there generally isn’t a lot of original programming in prime time. But that drought seems ...

The book’s family scenes emit an unmistakably warm glow, but ‘sweet home peace’ was mostly a fantasy for the author, as it is ...

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 ...