About Author

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin (1850–1904) is an American writer best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald, and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of Louisiana Creole heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel The Awakening. Twenty-six of her stories are children’s stories—those published in or submitted to children’s magazines or those similar in subject or theme to those that were. Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time.