No, Louisa May Alcott was not a man. She was a woman ahead of her time.
In the New York Times on Dec. 24, journalist and author Peyton Thomas argues that “Little Women” author and female American literary great Louisa May Alcott is best understood as a transgender man. It is true that both the historical Alcott and her semi-autobiographical self, Jo March (the heroine of her most famous novel, “Little...