MarchMarch relates the civil war actions of Mr. March, the absent father of Louisa May Alcotts protagonist in Little Women. Brooks used as source materials Mr. Alcott's letters and journals, and the writings of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson who were friends of the Alcott family. Thoreau and Emerson also appear in the novel as secondary characters and friends of the Marches. The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. And Southern