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	\|website=KateChopin.org}}</ref> – August 22, 1904)<ref>{{cite ANB \|title=Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty \|first=Gay \|last=Barton \|id=1600295}}</ref> was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars<ref>Nilsen, Helge Normann. "American Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of Some Feminist Trends", ''American Studies in Scandinavia'', Vol. 22, 1990, pp. 27–29; University of Trondheim.</ref> to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century [[feminist]] authors of [[Southern United States\|Southern]] or [[Catholic]] background, such as [[Zelda Fitzgerald]], and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of [[Louisiana Creole people\|Louisiana Creole]] heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]''.		\|website=KateChopin.org}}</ref> – August 22, 1904)<ref>{{cite ANB \|title=Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty \|first=Gay \|last=Barton \|id=1600295}}</ref> was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars<ref>Nilsen, Helge Normann. "American Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of Some Feminist Trends", ''American Studies in Scandinavia'', Vol. 22, 1990, pp. 27–29; University of Trondheim.</ref> to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century [[feminist]] authors of [[Southern United States\|Southern]] or [[Catholic]] background, such as [[Zelda Fitzgerald]], and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of [[Louisiana Creole people\|Louisiana Creole]] heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]''.

	Of maternal French ~~Canadian~~ and paternal Irish descent, Chopin was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. She married and moved with her husband to [[New Orleans]]. They later lived in the country in [[Cloutierville, Louisiana]]. From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in national magazines, including ''[[The Atlantic\|The Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[Vogue (magazine)\|Vogue]]'', ''[[The Century Magazine]]'', and ''[[The Youth's Companion]]''. Her stories aroused controversy because of her subjects and her approach; they were condemned as immoral by some critics.		Of maternal French and paternal Irish descent, Chopin was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. She married and moved with her husband to [[New Orleans]]. They later lived in the country in [[Cloutierville, Louisiana]]. From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in national magazines, including ''[[The Atlantic\|The Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[Vogue (magazine)\|Vogue]]'', ''[[The Century Magazine]]'', and ''[[The Youth's Companion]]''. Her stories aroused controversy because of her subjects and her approach; they were condemned as immoral by some critics.

	Her major works were two short story collections and two novels. The collections are ''Bayou Folk'' (1894) and ''A Night in Acadie'' (1897). Her important short stories included "[[Désirée's Baby]]" (1893), a tale of an interracial relationship in [[Antebellum era\|antebellum]] Louisiana,<ref name=norton>{{cite book\|title=The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology\|author=William L. (Ed.) Andrews, Hobson, Trudier Harris, Minrose C. Gwwin\|year=1997\|isbn=978-0-393-31671-1\|publisher=Norton, W. W. & Company\|url=https://archive.org/details/literatureofame00andr}}</ref> "[[The Story of an Hour]]" (1894),<ref name=story>{{cite book\|title=The Story of an Hour\|first=Kate\|last=Chopin\|url=http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/}}</ref> and "[[The Storm (short story)\|The Storm]]" (written 1898, first published 1969).<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Storm, Kate Chopin, characters, setting, questions \|url=https://www.katechopin.org/the-storm/ \|website=KateChopin.org \|publisher=The Kate Chopin International Society \|access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref><ref name=norton/> ("The Storm" is a sequel to her "[[At the 'Cadian Ball]]" (1892), which appeared in ''Bayou Folk'', her first collection of short stories.)<ref name=norton/> Chopin's two novels, ''At Fault'' (1890) and ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]'' (1899), are set in New Orleans and nearby [[Grand Isle, Louisiana\|Grand Isle]]. The characters in her stories are usually residents of Louisiana, and many are Creoles of various ethnic or racial backgrounds. Many of her works are set in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana\|Natchitoches]] in north-central Louisiana, a region where she lived.		Her major works were two short story collections and two novels. The collections are ''Bayou Folk'' (1894) and ''A Night in Acadie'' (1897). Her important short stories included "[[Désirée's Baby]]" (1893), a tale of an interracial relationship in [[Antebellum era\|antebellum]] Louisiana,<ref name=norton>{{cite book\|title=The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology\|author=William L. (Ed.) Andrews, Hobson, Trudier Harris, Minrose C. Gwwin\|year=1997\|isbn=978-0-393-31671-1\|publisher=Norton, W. W. & Company\|url=https://archive.org/details/literatureofame00andr}}</ref> "[[The Story of an Hour]]" (1894),<ref name=story>{{cite book\|title=The Story of an Hour\|first=Kate\|last=Chopin\|url=http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/}}</ref> and "[[The Storm (short story)\|The Storm]]" (written 1898, first published 1969).<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Storm, Kate Chopin, characters, setting, questions \|url=https://www.katechopin.org/the-storm/ \|website=KateChopin.org \|publisher=The Kate Chopin International Society \|access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref><ref name=norton/> ("The Storm" is a sequel to her "[[At the 'Cadian Ball]]" (1892), which appeared in ''Bayou Folk'', her first collection of short stories.)<ref name=norton/> Chopin's two novels, ''At Fault'' (1890) and ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]'' (1899), are set in New Orleans and nearby [[Grand Isle, Louisiana\|Grand Isle]]. The characters in her stories are usually residents of Louisiana, and many are Creoles of various ethnic or racial backgrounds. Many of her works are set in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana\|Natchitoches]] in north-central Louisiana, a region where she lived.

	Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time.<ref name=Pattee>{{cite book\|author=Fred Lewis Pattee\|title=A History of American Literature Since 1870\|publisher= Harvard University Press\|page= 364}}</ref> In 1915, [[Fred Lewis Pattee]] wrote "some of [Chopin's] work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America. [She displayed] what may be described as a native aptitude for narration amounting almost to genius."<ref name=Pattee/> She was not related to famous Polish composer [[~~Frederic~~ Chopin]] ~~as some may believe~~ but she did have a son named Frederick Chopin, who was probably named after the composer.		Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time.<ref name=Pattee>{{cite book\|author=Fred Lewis Pattee\|title=A History of American Literature Since 1870\|publisher= Harvard University Press\|page= 364}}</ref> In 1915, [[Fred Lewis Pattee]] wrote "some of [Chopin's] work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America. [She displayed] what may be described as a native aptitude for narration amounting almost to genius."<ref name=Pattee/>

			She was not related to famous Polish composer [[Frédéric Chopin]], but she did have a son named Frederick Chopin, who was probably named after the composer.{{fact\|date=December 2025}}

	== Life ==		== Life ==

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	It took a brief commentary by novelist [[Linda Wolfe]] in the September 22, 1972, issue of ''The New York Times'' to kickstart the rediscovery of Chopin by the general public. In "There's Someone You Should Know – Kate Chopin", she described how she encouraged friends disappointed with contemporary fiction to discover Chopin and how ''The Awakening'' spoke to her today.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Wolfe \|first=Linda \|date=1972-09-22 \|title=There's Someone You Should Know \|language=en-US \|work=The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/22/archives/theres-someone-you-should-know-kate-chopin.html \|access-date=2023-02-22 \|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The last step required to bring the novel to general awareness happened almost immediately. Before the year was out, a major [[mass-market paperback]] publisher, [[Avon Books]], had the first mass-market paperback publication of the book heading to drug stores, supermarkets, and bookstores. A [[blurb]] from Wolfe's comments was featured prominently below the title and author's name at the top of the cover: "'Speaks to me as pertinently as any fiction published this year or last. It is uncanny, nothing else . . . A masterpiece.' Linda Wolfe, ''The New York Times''".<ref>Chopin, Kate, ''The Awakening'', [[Avon Books]], 1972, {{ISBN\|0-380-00245-0}}.</ref> Within a few years, all of the major mass-market paperback publishers had editions of ''The Awakening'' in print, making it widely available for anyone to buy.		It took a brief commentary by novelist [[Linda Wolfe]] in the September 22, 1972, issue of ''The New York Times'' to kickstart the rediscovery of Chopin by the general public. In "There's Someone You Should Know – Kate Chopin", she described how she encouraged friends disappointed with contemporary fiction to discover Chopin and how ''The Awakening'' spoke to her today.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Wolfe \|first=Linda \|date=1972-09-22 \|title=There's Someone You Should Know \|language=en-US \|work=The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/22/archives/theres-someone-you-should-know-kate-chopin.html \|access-date=2023-02-22 \|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The last step required to bring the novel to general awareness happened almost immediately. Before the year was out, a major [[mass-market paperback]] publisher, [[Avon Books]], had the first mass-market paperback publication of the book heading to drug stores, supermarkets, and bookstores. A [[blurb]] from Wolfe's comments was featured prominently below the title and author's name at the top of the cover: "'Speaks to me as pertinently as any fiction published this year or last. It is uncanny, nothing else . . . A masterpiece.' Linda Wolfe, ''The New York Times''".<ref>Chopin, Kate, ''The Awakening'', [[Avon Books]], 1972, {{ISBN\|0-380-00245-0}}.</ref> Within a few years, all of the major mass-market paperback publishers had editions of ''The Awakening'' in print, making it widely available for anyone to buy.

	[[Per Seyersted]]'s rediscovery of Chopin caused her work to be seen as essential feminist and Southern literature from the 19th century. Seyersted wrote that she "broke new ground in American Literature". According to Emily Toth, author of a recent Chopin biography, Kate Chopin's work rose in popularity and recognition during the 1970s due to themes of women venturing outside of the constraints set upon them by society, which appealed to people participating in feminist activism and the [[sexual revolution]]. She also argues that the works appealed to women in the 1960s, "a time when American women yearned to know about our feisty foremothers".<ref name=":8" /> Academics and scholars began to put Chopin in the same feminist categories as [[Louisa May Alcott]], [[Susan Warner]], and [[Emily Dickinson]]. Parallels between Alcott and Chopin have been drawn to point out how both authors wrote about women who departed from their traditional roles by dreaming of or striving for independence and individual freedoms, also described as a dramatization of a woman's struggle for selfhood.<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Winn\|first=Harbour\|date=1992\|title=Echoes of Literary Sisterhood: Louisa May Alcott and Kate Chopin\|journal=Studies in American Fiction\|volume=20\|issue=2\|pages=205–208\|doi=10.1353/saf.1992.0000\|s2cid=162207140\|issn=2158-415X}}</ref> A reviewer for ''[[Choice Reviews]]'' stated that it was ultimately a struggle doomed to failure because the patriarchal conventions of her society restricted her freedom.<ref>{{cite book\|date=March 1, 1994\|title=The awakening: a novel of beginnings}}</ref> Karen Simons felt that this failed struggle was perfectly captured by the ending of the novel, where Edna Pontellier ~~ends her life due to her realization~~ that she cannot truly be both the traditional mother and have a sense of herself as an individual at the same time.<ref>Simons, Karen (Spring 1998). "Kate Chopin on the Nature of Things" (PDF). ''The Mississippi Quarterly''. '''51.2''': p243.</ref>		[[Per Seyersted]]'s rediscovery of Chopin caused her work to be seen as essential feminist and Southern literature from the 19th century. Seyersted wrote that she "broke new ground in American Literature". According to Emily Toth, author of a recent Chopin biography, Kate Chopin's work rose in popularity and recognition during the 1970s due to themes of women venturing outside of the constraints set upon them by society, which appealed to people participating in feminist activism and the [[sexual revolution]]. She also argues that the works appealed to women in the 1960s, "a time when American women yearned to know about our feisty foremothers".<ref name=":8" /> Academics and scholars began to put Chopin in the same feminist categories as [[Louisa May Alcott]], [[Susan Warner]], and [[Emily Dickinson]]. Parallels between Alcott and Chopin have been drawn to point out how both authors wrote about women who departed from their traditional roles by dreaming of or striving for independence and individual freedoms, also described as a dramatization of a woman's struggle for selfhood.<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Winn\|first=Harbour\|date=1992\|title=Echoes of Literary Sisterhood: Louisa May Alcott and Kate Chopin\|journal=Studies in American Fiction\|volume=20\|issue=2\|pages=205–208\|doi=10.1353/saf.1992.0000\|s2cid=162207140\|issn=2158-415X}}</ref> A reviewer for ''[[Choice Reviews]]'' stated that it was ultimately a struggle doomed to failure because the patriarchal conventions of her society restricted her freedom.<ref>{{cite book\|date=March 1, 1994\|title=The awakening: a novel of beginnings}}</ref> Karen Simons felt that this failed struggle was perfectly captured by the ending of the novel, where Edna Pontellier realizes that she cannot truly be both the traditional mother and have a sense of herself as an individual at the same time.<ref>Simons, Karen (Spring 1998). "Kate Chopin on the Nature of Things" (PDF). ''The Mississippi Quarterly''. '''51.2''': p243.</ref>

	== Representation in other media ==		== Representation in other media ==
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	== Works ==		== Works ==
	* ''Bayou Folk'' ([~~http~~://~~docsouth~~.~~unc~~.~~edu~~/~~southlit~~/~~chopinbayou/bayou~~.~~html~~ ''~~Bayou Folk~~''~~] is available online on the~~ [[~~University of North Carolina~~]] ~~website~~)
	* ''~~A Night in Acadie~~'' ([~~https~~:/~~/en~~.~~wikisource.org/wiki/A_Night_in_Acadie_~~(~~story~~) ''A ~~Night in Acadie~~''] ~~is available online on~~ [[~~Wikisource~~]])		=== Short story collections ===

			* ''[[iarchive:bayoufolk00choprich/\|Bayou Folk]]'' (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894)
			* ''[[iarchive:nightinacadie00chop/\|A Night in Acadie]]'' (Way & Williams, 1897)

			=== Novels ===

			* ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435017835448 At Fault]'' (Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1890)
			* ''[[iarchive:awakeningchop/\|The Awakening]]'' (H. S. Stone & Co., 1899)

			=== Posthumously published ===

			* ''Kate Chopin and Her Creole Stories'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932)
			* ''[[iarchive:completeworksofk0000chop/\|The Complete Works of Kate Chopin]]'', ed. [[Per Seyersted]] (Louisiana State University Press, 1969)
			* ''A Kate Chopin Miscellany'', ed. Per Seyersted and [[Emily Toth]] (Northwestern State University Press, 1979)
			* [[iarchive:completenovelsst0000chop\|''Complete Novels and Stories'']] (Library of America, 2002)

			=== Individual stories ===
	* "[[At the 'Cadian Ball]]" (1892) ([http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/kchopin/bl-kchop-atthecad.htm "At the 'Cadian Ball"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051023202553/http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/kchopin/bl-kchop-atthecad.htm \|date=October 23, 2005 }} is available online from the [[About.com]] website)		* "[[At the 'Cadian Ball]]" (1892) ([http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/kchopin/bl-kchop-atthecad.htm "At the 'Cadian Ball"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051023202553/http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/kchopin/bl-kchop-atthecad.htm \|date=October 23, 2005 }} is available online from the [[About.com]] website)
	* "[[The Story of an Hour]]" (1894) [http://www.katechopin.org/story-hour/ Read "The Story of an Hour"]		* "[[The Story of an Hour]]" (1894) [http://www.katechopin.org/story-hour/ Read "The Story of an Hour"]
	* "[[Désirée's Baby]]" (1895) [http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/desirees-baby.pdf Read "Désirée's Baby"]		* "[[Désirée's Baby]]" (1895) [http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/desirees-baby.pdf Read "Désirée's Baby"]
	* "Emancipation: A Life Fable" [~~https~~:~~//en.wikisource.org/wiki/~~Emancipation._A_Life_Fable Read "Emancipation: A Life Fable"]		* "Emancipation: A Life Fable" [[wikisource:Emancipation._A_Life_Fable\|Read "Emancipation: A Life Fable"]]
	* "[[The Storm (short story)\|The Storm]]" (1898) [http://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/the-storm Read "The Storm"]		* "[[The Storm (short story)\|The Storm]]" (1898) [http://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/the-storm Read "The Storm"]
	* "[[A Pair of Silk Stockings]]" [http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin%2c%20A%20Pair%20of%20Silk%20Stockings.pdf Read "A Pair of Silk Stockings"]		* "[[A Pair of Silk Stockings]]" [http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin%2c%20A%20Pair%20of%20Silk%20Stockings.pdf Read "A Pair of Silk Stockings"]
	* "The Locket"		* "The Locket"
	* "Athenaise" [http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinnight/chopin.html#chopin39 Read "Athenaise"]		* "Athenaise" [http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinnight/chopin.html#chopin39 Read "Athenaise"]
	* "Lilacs" [https://www.pbs.org/katechopin/library/lilacs.html Read "Lilacs"]		* "Lilacs" [https://www.pbs.org/katechopin/library/lilacs.html Read "Lilacs"]
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	* "Beyond the Bayou" [http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinbayou/bayou.html#bayouf99 Read "Beyond the Bayou"]		* "Beyond the Bayou" [http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinbayou/bayou.html#bayouf99 Read "Beyond the Bayou"]
	* "A No-Account Creole" [http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=cent;cc=cent;rgn=full%20text;idno=cent0047-3;didno=cent0047-3;view=image;seq=0392;node=cent0047-3%3A12 Read "A No-Account Creole"]{{dead link\|date=September 2024}}		* "A No-Account Creole" [http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=cent;cc=cent;rgn=full%20text;idno=cent0047-3;didno=cent0047-3;view=image;seq=0392;node=cent0047-3%3A12 Read "A No-Account Creole"]{{dead link\|date=September 2024}}
	*''The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories''<!-- check this -->		*"[[Fedora (short story)\|Fedora]]"
	* "[[Fedora (short story)\|Fedora]]"
	* "Regret" [http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin%2c%20Regret.pdf Read "Regret]		* "Regret" [http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin%2c%20Regret.pdf Read "Regret]
	* "Madame Célestin's Divorce" [http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinbayou/bayou.html#bayouf163 Read "Madame Célestin's Divorce"]		* "Madame Célestin's Divorce" [http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinbayou/bayou.html#bayouf163 Read "Madame Célestin's Divorce"]
	* ''At Fault'' (1890), Nixon Jones Printing Co, St. Louis [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23810 Read ''At Fault'']
	* ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]'' (1899), H.S. Stone, Chicago [https://westernhs.bcps.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_4204286/Image/Grade12%20TheAwakening.pdf Read "The Awakening"]
	* "[[An Egyptian Cigarette]]" (1900)		* "[[An Egyptian Cigarette]]" (1900)

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	\|website=KateChopin.org}}</ref> – August 22, 1904)<ref>{{cite ANB \|title=Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty \|first=Gay \|last=Barton \|id=1600295}}</ref> was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars<ref>Nilsen, Helge Normann. "American Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of Some Feminist Trends", ''American Studies in Scandinavia'', Vol. 22, 1990, pp. 27–29; University of Trondheim.</ref> to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century [[feminist]] authors of [[Southern United States\|Southern]] or [[Catholic]] background, such as [[Zelda Fitzgerald]], and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of [[Louisiana Creole people\|Louisiana Creole]] heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]''.		\|website=KateChopin.org}}</ref> – August 22, 1904)<ref>{{cite ANB \|title=Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty \|first=Gay \|last=Barton \|id=1600295}}</ref> was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars<ref>Nilsen, Helge Normann. "American Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of Some Feminist Trends", ''American Studies in Scandinavia'', Vol. 22, 1990, pp. 27–29; University of Trondheim.</ref> to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century [[feminist]] authors of [[Southern United States\|Southern]] or [[Catholic]] background, such as [[Zelda Fitzgerald]], and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of [[Louisiana Creole people\|Louisiana Creole]] heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]''.

	Of maternal French ~~Canadian~~ and paternal Irish descent, Chopin was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. She married and moved with her husband to [[New Orleans]]. They later lived in the country in [[Cloutierville, Louisiana]]. From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in national magazines, including ''[[The Atlantic\|The Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[Vogue (magazine)\|Vogue]]'', ''[[The Century Magazine]]'', and ''[[The Youth's Companion]]''. Her stories aroused controversy because of her subjects and her approach; they were condemned as immoral by some critics.		Of maternal French and paternal Irish descent, Chopin was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. She married and moved with her husband to [[New Orleans]]. They later lived in the country in [[Cloutierville, Louisiana]]. From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in national magazines, including ''[[The Atlantic\|The Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[Vogue (magazine)\|Vogue]]'', ''[[The Century Magazine]]'', and ''[[The Youth's Companion]]''. Her stories aroused controversy because of her subjects and her approach; they were condemned as immoral by some critics.

	Her major works were two short story collections and two novels. The collections are ''Bayou Folk'' (1894) and ''A Night in Acadie'' (1897). Her important short stories included "[[Désirée's Baby]]" (1893), a tale of an interracial relationship in [[Antebellum era\|antebellum]] Louisiana,<ref name=norton>{{cite book\|title=The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology\|author=William L. (Ed.) Andrews, Hobson, Trudier Harris, Minrose C. Gwwin\|year=1997\|isbn=978-0-393-31671-1\|publisher=Norton, W. W. & Company\|url=https://archive.org/details/literatureofame00andr}}</ref> "[[The Story of an Hour]]" (1894),<ref name=story>{{cite book\|title=The Story of an Hour\|first=Kate\|last=Chopin\|url=http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/}}</ref> and "[[The Storm (short story)\|The Storm]]" (written 1898, first published 1969).<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Storm, Kate Chopin, characters, setting, questions \|url=https://www.katechopin.org/the-storm/ \|website=KateChopin.org \|publisher=The Kate Chopin International Society \|access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref><ref name=norton/> ("The Storm" is a sequel to her "[[At the 'Cadian Ball]]" (1892), which appeared in ''Bayou Folk'', her first collection of short stories.)<ref name=norton/> Chopin's two novels, ''At Fault'' (1890) and ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]'' (1899), are set in New Orleans and nearby [[Grand Isle, Louisiana\|Grand Isle]]. The characters in her stories are usually residents of Louisiana, and many are Creoles of various ethnic or racial backgrounds. Many of her works are set in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana\|Natchitoches]] in north-central Louisiana, a region where she lived.		Her major works were two short story collections and two novels. The collections are ''Bayou Folk'' (1894) and ''A Night in Acadie'' (1897). Her important short stories included "[[Désirée's Baby]]" (1893), a tale of an interracial relationship in [[Antebellum era\|antebellum]] Louisiana,<ref name=norton>{{cite book\|title=The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology\|author=William L. (Ed.) Andrews, Hobson, Trudier Harris, Minrose C. Gwwin\|year=1997\|isbn=978-0-393-31671-1\|publisher=Norton, W. W. & Company\|url=https://archive.org/details/literatureofame00andr}}</ref> "[[The Story of an Hour]]" (1894),<ref name=story>{{cite book\|title=The Story of an Hour\|first=Kate\|last=Chopin\|url=http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/}}</ref> and "[[The Storm (short story)\|The Storm]]" (written 1898, first published 1969).<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Storm, Kate Chopin, characters, setting, questions \|url=https://www.katechopin.org/the-storm/ \|website=KateChopin.org \|publisher=The Kate Chopin International Society \|access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref><ref name=norton/> ("The Storm" is a sequel to her "[[At the 'Cadian Ball]]" (1892), which appeared in ''Bayou Folk'', her first collection of short stories.)<ref name=norton/> Chopin's two novels, ''At Fault'' (1890) and ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)\|The Awakening]]'' (1899), are set in New Orleans and nearby [[Grand Isle, Louisiana\|Grand Isle]]. The characters in her stories are usually residents of Louisiana, and many are Creoles of various ethnic or racial backgrounds. Many of her works are set in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana\|Natchitoches]] in north-central Louisiana, a region where she lived.

	Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time.<ref name=Pattee>{{cite book\|author=Fred Lewis Pattee\|title=A History of American Literature Since 1870\|publisher= Harvard University Press\|page= 364}}</ref> In 1915, [[Fred Lewis Pattee]] wrote "some of [Chopin's] work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America. [She displayed] what may be described as a native aptitude for narration amounting almost to genius."<ref name=Pattee/> She was not related to famous Polish composer [[~~Frederic~~ Chopin]] ~~as some may believe~~ but she did have a son named Frederick Chopin, who was probably named after the composer.		Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time.<ref name=Pattee>{{cite book\|author=Fred Lewis Pattee\|title=A History of American Literature Since 1870\|publisher= Harvard University Press\|page= 364}}</ref> In 1915, [[Fred Lewis Pattee]] wrote "some of [Chopin's] work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America. [She displayed] what may be described as a native aptitude for narration amounting almost to genius."<ref name=Pattee/>

			She was not related to famous Polish composer [[Frédéric Chopin]], but she did have a son named Frederick Chopin, who was probably named after the composer.{{fact\|date=December 2025}}

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