Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) was an American novelist. Alcott is best known for her novel Little Women (1868), which is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters. She was a daughter of noted Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott; her uncle, Samuel Joseph May, was a noted abolitionist.

Born in Pennsylvania, her family moved to Boston in 1834 or 1835, where her father established the experimental Temple School and befriended fellow transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau of Concord, Massachusetts. Alcott's family moved to Concord, where she was greatly influenced by these early sage American thinkers.

Along with Emerson, Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alcott is buried along Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Mass.).

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