The Improper Bostonian, in its Best of Boston issue, named Marmee & Louisa this year’s Best Nonfiction Book by a Local Author. Dennis Lehane’s novel Live By Night, which “has Hollywood executives all but offering lap dances for the exclusive movie rights,” got the fiction honor, so we’re in great company.
From improper.com:
“Behind every great woman is her mother, or so argues Eve LaPlante’s 2012 dual-subject biography of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and her mother, Abigail May Alcott. LaPlante, a Brookline native and Alcott descendant, draws on new documents that contradict the popular assumption that the 19th-century writer owed her then-uncommon literary success to her father. Instead, this scrupulous ancestral study reveals that it was Abigail’s progressive thinking that influenced her daughter’s writing. Skeptical? Read the book yourself.”
From improper.com:
“Behind every great woman is her mother, or so argues Eve LaPlante’s 2012 dual-subject biography of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and her mother, Abigail May Alcott. LaPlante, a Brookline native and Alcott descendant, draws on new documents that contradict the popular assumption that the 19th-century writer owed her then-uncommon literary success to her father. Instead, this scrupulous ancestral study reveals that it was Abigail’s progressive thinking that influenced her daughter’s writing. Skeptical? Read the book yourself.”
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