num_pages: 512
description: Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson, an 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 coveted her father's understanding seemed 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.
language: English
title: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
titlecomplete: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
characters: Louisa May Alcott
genres: Biography, History, American History, Philosophy, American, Womens, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature, Books About Books
ratings_count: 1738
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company