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'''Kate Chopin''' (1851-1904) was an American author. Her works include ''Bayou Folk'' (1894) and ''The Awakening'' (1899).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1993.</ref>
'''Kate Chopin''' (1851-1904) was an American author. Her works include ''Bayou Folk'' (1894) and ''The Awakening'' (1899).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1993.</ref>
==Life and Works==
Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/kate-chopin-9247211</ref> She read very much as a young girl raised in St. Louis before marrying Oscar Chopin.<ref>"Chopin, Kate." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref> She soon moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, and was a housewife before the death of her husband, when she began to write novels and short stories.<ref>https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/bio-books-stories</ref> In ''At Fault'' (1890), she describes a love triangle between a strong widow, a businessman, and his alcoholic wife; in ''Bayou Folk'' and ''A Night in Acadie'' (1897), she describes the local color of New Orleans; and in ''The Awakening'', she describes a woman called Edna Pontellier who seeks fulfillment on an adventure, in a novel which scandalized certain people and ended Chopin's literary career.<ref>https://www.loa.org/books/184-complete-novels-and-stories</ref> It is a classic that defies simple interpretation of Edna's actions and has astounded critics for centuries.<ref>http://www.loyno.edu/~kchopin/</ref>
==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[www.katechopin.org Official Website]
*[https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/bio-books-stories Archive of Stories]
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