The Life & Times of Louisa May Alcott
Co-sponsored with the Waterford Library

Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Waterford Public Library
6:30 p.m. Refreshments
7:00 p.m. Program

Join us in March as we once again co-sponsor with Waterford Library to bring you Ruth Crocker who will present a program about Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888).
This well know author is most famous for “Little Women,” a novel that shaped the way many women since the Victorian era have defined girlhood and family. Louisa was also a Civil War nurse, an avid supporter of women’s suffrage, and, through her writing, the sole breadwinner for her family. This presentation reveals her fascinating path to fame as an author and the role of Emerson, Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and other great transcendentalists in her life.
Ruth W. Crocker is the author of The Secret Life of Louisa May Alcott, a one-act play based on the writings, diaries and journal entries of Ms Alcott.   She has a special interest in women writers of the nineteenth century. Her essays and nonfiction articles have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Grace Magazine, O-Dark-Thirty, T.A.P.S. Magazine, Bennington Review, PersimmonTree, The Saturday Evening Post, Redux and several trade magazines. Her memoir, Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion After War, received the Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal for nonfiction, and her book People of Yellowstone, received the Foreword Review Book of the Year Award in 2017. She is also a featured workshop presenter each year on the art of memoir writing at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Cape Cod. She holds a PhD from the University of Connecticut, an MFA in Creative writing from Bennington College and an MEd from Tufts University. She lives in Mystic, Connecticut. Visit her at www.ruthwcrocker.com.