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| caption = Chopin in 1894
| birth_name = Katherine O'Flaherty
| birth_date = {{Birth date|18511850|2|8}}
| birth_place = [[St. Louis]], Missouri, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|8|22|18511850|2|8}}
| death_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
| occupation = Novelist, short story writer
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'''Kate Chopin''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ʃ|oʊ|p|æ|n}},<ref>{{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Chopin,+Kate |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516121044/https://www.lexico.com/definition/chopin,_kate |url-status=dead |archive-date=2021-05-16 |title=Chopin, Kate |dictionary=[[Lexico]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|Chopin|access-date=July 23, 2019}}</ref> <small>also</small> {{IPAc-en|US|ʃ|oʊ|ˈ|p|æ|n|,_|ˈ|ʃ|oʊ|p|ən}};<ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Chopin|access-date=July 23, 2019}}</ref> born '''Katherine O'Flaherty'''; February 8, 18511850<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.katechopin.org/faq/
|title=Frequently Asked Questions about Kate Chopin
|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 one of the more 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 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 ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''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.
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