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Eve LaPlante

Biography

Eve LaPlante

Eve LaPlante is a great niece and a first cousin of Abigail and Louisa May Alcott. She is the author of SEIZED, AMERICAN JEZEBEL, and SALEM WITCH JUDGE, the winner of the 2008 Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. She is also the editor of a collection of Abigail May Alcott's private papers. She lives with her family in New England.

Eve LaPlante

Books by Eve LaPlante

by Eve LaPlante - Biography, Nonfiction

Since its release nearly 150 years ago, Louisa May Alcott’s classic LITTLE WOMEN has been a mainstay in American literature, while passionate Jo March and her calm, beloved “Marmee” have shaped generations of young women. In this riveting dual biography, Eve LaPlante draws on unknown and unexplored letters and journals to show that Louisa’s “Marmee,” Abigail May Alcott, was the intellectual and emotional center of her daughter’s world.