Louisa May Alcott, best known as the author of "Little Women," was born in Philadelphia on Nov. 29, 1832. She served as a Civil War nurse before achieving literary fame.

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(Alcott loved the British author so deeply that she brought his books with her while serving as a nurse during the Civil War, to read to convalescing soldiers.) Advertisement ...