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 ...

There have been many books about Louisa May Alcott and her magnum opus, "Little Women," and not a few about her father, Bronson Alcott, an important figure in his own right in the circles of 19th ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...