Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. American author, known for her children books, especially Little Women. Alcott draws her material from her own family and from the New England milieu where she had grown up. Originally she begun writing ´rubbish novels´, sometimes anonymously, sometimes as ´Alcott´, to contribute to the family income. Although Alcott is often considered as a juvenile writer (her first biographer, Ednah Dow Chaney, labelled her as The Children´s Fr ...