Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother

The acclaimed and “meticulously researched” (People) biography that actor Laura Dern—who played Marmee in the 2019 Little Women film adaptation—calls “a beautiful book of letters between Louisa and her mother…a massive influence. You feel it as like a cord of the film.”

Marmee & Louisa paints an exquisitely moving and utterly convincing portrait of Louisa May Alcott and her mother, the real “Marmee.” Award-winning biographer Eve LaPlante mines the Alcotts’ intimate diaries and other private ...