| Front | Kate Chopin |
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| Back | 1851-1904 American novelist and Short story writer her first novel, At Fault (1890), showed the influence of Guy de Maupassant Bayou Folk 1894, a Night in Acadie 1897, which helped establish her as a leading exponent of the local colour school her best work , the Awakening, 1899. its sympathetic portrayal of women who rejects the constraints of marriage and motherhood provoked hostile criticism Kate Chopin (/ˈʃoʊpæn/,[1][2] also US: /ʃoʊˈpæn, ˈʃoʊpən/;[3] born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is now considered by some scholars[4] to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald, and is one of the most frequently read and recognized writers of Louisiana Creole heritage. |
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