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American novelist Louisa May Alcott best known for her novel “Little Women” and its follow up sequels “Little Men” and “Jo’s Boys”. She based the characters in her novel on herself and her family. Where her heroin Jo was based on herself she never married. Growing up among many well know intellectuals of the day like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau she started writing for Atlantic Monthly. Serving as a nurse during the civil war her letters home became one of her less famous books “Hospital Sketches”.