Matteson, a professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, was inspired to write the book by his relationship with his real-life daughter, who, according to the book's acknowledgments, did "more than anyone else" to help him understand the Alcotts.[2]Eden's Outcasts is noteworthy for its sympathetic treatment of Bronson, a figure who has been frequently discounted and even ridiculed by scholars of the Transcendental era, and for its suggestion that both Bronson and Louisa suffered from some form of bipolar disorder. Eden's Outcasts is only the second dual biography ever to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the first having been Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash.[1]
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^ ab"The Pulitzer Prizes | Biography or Autobiography". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
^John Matteson, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father, (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), x.
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