Alcott, Louisa May (–)American author whose best-known work is the classic Little Women. Name variations: (pseudonyms) Flora Fairfield; A.M. Barnard. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on Novem; died in DunreathPlace, Roxbury, Massachusetts, on March 6, ; second child of Bronson (a writer, educator, and Transcendentalist) and Abigail (May) Alcott; never married; no.