num_pages: 497
description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth the famous Alcott was her father Bronsonan eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply covetedher father's understandingseemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life her work and the relationships of fathers and daughters. 26 illustrations
language: English
title: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company