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Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1840 her family moved to a cottage on two acres along the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts. Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, in 1868. The novel is a semiautobiographical account of her childhood years along with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts.