Louisa May Alcott is an unexpected inhabitant in the world of magazine editing. Her name is better known as the author of Little Women (1868-1869) and other children's stories, and her novels are now as often scrutinized by social historians as they are...
Louisa May Alcott (29 November 1832-6 March 1888) still retains her reputation as one of America's best-loved writers of juveniles. That reputation was established with the publication of Little Women (1868-1869), a domestic novel for girls primarily aut...
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is one of America's best-known writers of juvenile fiction. She was also a reformer, working in the causes of temperance and women's suffrage. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pa., in 1832. She was the daughter of B...
Kerrie Beckner, Record Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-20-1991 JACK AND JILL GO TO COURT -- KIDS LEARN ABOUT LAW THROUGH RHYME By Kerrie Beckner, Record Staff Writer Date: 02-20-1991, Wednesday Section: SOUTH PASSAIC YOUR TOWN RECORD. ALSO IN.PASSAIC / MORRIS YOUR...
James Patterson. Little, Brown, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 0-316-69371-5 Patterson's most recent thriller, Hide and Seek, lacked his customary hero, Alex Cross, and didn't catch fire with readers. Here, Patterson brings back the black psychiatrist and Washington, D.C., homicide cop (Kiss the Girls, etc.)...
By the time the Pakistani government is done revising history, Benazir Bhutto will have died from carpal tunnel syndrome from waving too hard at well-wishers after a campaign rally — her last.Maybe by the time you finish this column, the military will have narrowed the...
When it came to risk, Beverly Sills' approach was akin to a beer commercial. She went for the gusto. When she was 40 years old, Sills made a sudden and dramatic switch in her repertoire. Instead of sticking with the mostly French operas (such as...
