Biography of kate chopin
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Kate Chopin (–) is an American writer best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women. Her novel The Awakening and her short stories are read today in countries around the world, and she is widely recognized as one of America’s essential authors.
Her short stories were well received in the s and were published by some of America’s most prestigious magazines—Vogue, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Young People, the Youth’s Companion, and the Century. A few stories were syndicated by the American Press Association. Many of her stories also appeared in her two published collections, Bayou Folk () and A Night in Acadie (), both of which received good reviews from critics across the country who praised them for their graceful descriptions of the lives of Creoles, Acadians, African-Americans, and other people in Louisiana. Twenty-six of her stories are children’s stories—those published in or intended for children’s or fa
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Biography of Kate Chopin
by Neal Wyatt
Kate Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri in to Eliza and Thomas O'Flaherty. She was the third of five children, but her sisters died in infancy and her brothers (from her father's first marriage) in their early twenties. She was the only child to live past the age of twenty-five.
In , at five and a half, she was sent to The Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic boarding school in St. Louis. Her father was killed two months later when a train on which he was riding crossed a bridge that collapsed. For the next two years she lived at home with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of them widows. Her great-grandmother, Victoria Verdon Charleville oversaw her education and taught her French, music, and the gossip on St. Louis women of the past. Kate O'Flaherty grew up surrounded by smart, independent, single women. They were also savvy and came from a long line of ground breaking women Victoria's own mother had
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Kate Chopin
American author (–)
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| Born | Katherine O'Flaherty ()February 8, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | August 22, () (aged&#;54) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Genre | Realistic fiction |
| Notable works | The Awakening |
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| Children | 6, including Oscar Chopin |
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