Who wrote 'Little Women'?

Who wrote “Little Women”? Louisa May Alcott wrote it. The coming-of-age novel follows the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they grow up during and after the American Civil War.

Alcott drew heavily on her own family life in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo March is widely understood as a partly autobiographical character, reflecting Alcott’s ambitions, independence, and frustration with the limited opportunities available to women writers in the 19th century. Her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, was a prominent Transcendentalist educator and philosopher.

Little Women was first published in two volumes: the first appeared in 1868 and the second in 1869. The story’s success led to sequels, including Little Men and Jo’s Boys. A common mix-up is confusing Alcott with Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters, who were also famous women novelists but wrote different works in different literary traditions.