Bayou Folk

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (1850–1904), was a seminal American author best known for her insights into the lives of women in the post-Civil War South. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a family with a rich French heritage, Chopin was bilingual from a young age, which nuanced her writing with cultural depth. Educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, her intellectual curiosity and liter...