American writer of classic children's fiction, best remembered for her novel "Little Women" (1868), an account of her own impoverished childhood and her close relationships with her siblings and parents.
Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
Worked as a nurse in a union hospital in Georgetown during the American Civil War.
Pictured on the 5¢ US postage stamp in the Famous American/Authors
series, issued 5 February 1940.
