# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:07:09.625Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Raised in New England by transcendentalist parents who counted Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne as neighbors, Alcott grew up intellectually rich and materially poor. She took odd jobs from an early age to support the family, and began writing for money—first sensation novels under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, then Hospital Sketches in the 1860s, drawn from her service as a Civil War nurse. Little Women arrived in 1868, loosely based on her childhood with three sisters, and became the success that anchored her career through three sequels. An abolitionist, feminist, and lifelong advocate for temperance and suffrage, she never married. After her sister's death she raised the daughter left behind, and died of a stroke in Boston two days after her father, buried at Sleepy Hollow.