Kate Chopin
American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana
19th-century american novelists
Frances Hodgson Burnett
British novelist and playwright
Frances Hodgson Burnett
British novelist and playwright
L. Frank Baum
American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels
Henry Adams
American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys . Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Alcott’s family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing