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10 Nonfiction Books of 2009 January Magazine Top 10 Biographies of 2009 Booklist Top 5 Adult Books for Young Adult Readers Massachusetts Book Award Finalist for Best Nonfiction 2009  \n“At last, Louisa May Alcott has the biography that admirers of Little Women might have hoped for…. A full and vivid portrait.”  \n—Melanie Kirkpatrick, The Wall Street Journal  \n“Ms. Reisen is a master storyteller. With compassion and insight, she propels readers on to the next adventure, sacrifice, tragedy, and triumph. That happy sense of discovery is your reward in reading this masterful work by this talented new biographer.”  \n—Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, The Washington Times  \n“Harriet Reisen’s Louisa May Alcott is terrific…. The utterly compelling force ofAlcott’s personality has never been better described. I found the book compulsively readable; I couldn’t put it down.”  \n—Robert D. Richardson, biographer of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James  \n“Reisen’s story equals—and maybe bests—[Alcott’s] beloved book about the lively March sisters.”  \n—Lisa Shea, Elle magazine  \n“This juicy bio is a page-turner.”  \n—Good Housekeeping  \n“Harriet Reisen puts twenty years of study into a highly readable story. She casts a revealing new light upon an ambitious woman who was very much like her literary alter ego.”  \n—Joyce Sáenz Harris, The Dallas Morning News  \n“Brilliantly researched…Beautifully and sympathetically written,[Reisen’s] biography will occupy an essential place on any Alcott bookshelf.”  \n—John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Eden ’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father  \n“A deliciously palatable biography of the iconic writer whose life was ‘as full of plot and character as any [she] invented.’…An absorbing portrait of the protean author whose ‘life was no children’s book.’”  \n—Kirkus Reviews  \n“A lively, engrossing portrait of Louisa May Alcott’s life…Alcott’s spirit shines through in Reisen’s retelling.”  \n—Associated Press  \n“Reisen’s cinematic sensibility makes for a marvelous book, impossible to put down…. With its finely drawn portraits of characters who come alive ina couple of sentences,[it is] a book rich in affecting scenes and colorful anecdotes and a fine sense of both the intimate personal detail and the historic backdrop of Alcott and her family and their place amid the great minds of nineteenth-century New England.”  \n—Jean Westmoore, Buffalo News  \nTo Nancy Porter, treasured friend and colleague  \nContents  \nPreface  \nPROLOGUE: Behind a Mask  \nONE: Fit for the Scuffle of Things  \nTWO: The Law of Might  \nTHREE: The Topsey Turvey Girl  \nFOUR: Wild Exuberant Nature  \nFIVE: Man in a Balloon  \nSIX: Transcendental Wild Oats  \nSEVEN: The Happiest Years of My Life  \nEIGHT: Heaven’s So Far Away  \nNINE: The Independent Feeling  \nTEN: Nature Must Have a Vent  \nELEVEN: I’ve Often Longed to See a War  \nTWELVE: Where Glory Waited  \nTHIRTEEN: A Little Romance  \nFOURTEEN: We Really Lived Most of It  \nFIFTEEN: Happy Before I Die  \nSIXTEEN: Success  \nSEVENTEEN: The Cream of Things  \nEIGHTEEN: More Courage and Patience  \nEPILOGUE: How They Turned Out  \nSelected Bibliography Acknowledgments Notes  \nIndex  \nPreface  \nLike so many other girls, I fell under the spell of Louisa May Alcott when my mother presented Little Women to me as ifit were the key to a magic kingdom. I was taken into Louisa’s story so completely that a book with covers and pages has no place in my memory of the experience. While I was there, by my mother ’s decree, normal life was suspended. Jelly omelets were delivered to my room on bed trays, and sleep was optional. At such a time, school was out of the question. Jo March was coming to take up residence in my heart, a companion for life, to endow me with a little something of Louisa Alcott’s own wise, funny, sentimental, and sharply realistic outlook. 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