Although the March family is fictional, the characters—including the four sisters whose stories have captivated generations of girls—are heavily based on Louisa May Alcott’s real-life family.

Every 10 years since what would have been Louisa May Alcott’s 100th birthday in 1932, the Concord Players honor their hometown author with a stage adaption of her beloved “Little Women.” ...

Louisa May Alcott was known to publish under various names throughout her writing career, but this discovery marks the first time any new pseudonym has been linked to Alcott since the 1940s.

The find revealed a stunning friendship between Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest poets and a women so shy she only talked to visitors through her door, and Louisa May Alcott, author of ...

This year, a strange new fable has emerged in this holiday tradition — and the Christmas miracle is that it was written by none other than Louisa May Alcott. Alcott, of course, is most famous ...

She wrote lurid, sensational stories before Little Women. Like her heroine Jo March, Louisa May Alcott wrote, published, and supported her family with what she called “blood and thunder tales ...

Max Chapnick first presented this research at the American Literature Association Conference in 2022, where he recieved funding from the Louisa May Alcott Society of which he is also a member.