Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She was the second oldest of four sisters. She received most of her early schooling from her father, as he was a teacher. Her story Little Women is about many of her own true experiences. Hard times fell upon her family and Louisa worked many jobs to help her parents. She was a seamstress, a nurse and a schoolteacher, just to name a few. She started to write in hopes of making more money. Little Women is her most well known book. On March 6, 1888, only days after her father had passed away, Louisa May Alcott died.