Full name: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Author: John Matteson Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Non Fiction, History, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393059649 0393059642

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. Similar books: Louisa May Alcott by Harriet Reisen Louisa May Alcott by Susan Cheever Marmee & Louisa by Eve LaPlante Who Was Roald Dahl? by True Kelley Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin Pearl S. Buck by Peter Conn The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar Oh, the Places He Went by Maryann N. Weidt Audrey by Alexander Walker John Wayne by Scott Eyman Wired by Bob Woodward Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris Private Demons by Judy Oppenheimer Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D. T. Max Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight