FORT COLLINS READS
is proud to announce -

Pulitzer Prize
winning author
GERALDINE BROOKS
will speak in Fort Collins

ABOUT LITTLE WOMEN

Louisa May Alcott’s classic was published in 1868 and set in Orchard House, the Alcott family home in Concord, Mass. The story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a semi-autobiographical account of Alcott’s childhood. She based her heroine "Jo" on herself, although Jo eventually married and Alcott remained single. She died on March 6, 1888, at age 55.

Alcott's early education included lessons from the naturalist Henry David Thoreau. She was also taught by family friends such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller.

Alcott originally published under the pen name of A.M. Barnard. Under her real name, she published numerous writings, including “Hospital Sketches” and “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys.”

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT AWARD

About the Library District’s receipt of the Louisa May Alcott Award

Fort Collins Reads selection of “March” by Geraldine Brooks was made in conjunction with the Poudre River Public Library District’s receipt of a prestigious Louisa May Alcott grant.

The outreach grant was awarded earlier this year by the American Library Association Public Programs Office and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thirty libraries across the United States were selected for the award. Each recipient will offer five reading, viewing and discussion programs featuring the documentary, “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women,” and the companion biography of the same name.

Congratulations to Fort Collins Reads committee member Sarah Scobey and CSU English Professor Bruce Rhonda for earning this prestigious award on behalf of the community.

For more information on the grant, visit http://www.ala.org/louisamayalcott

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