Kate Chopin

(1851-1904)

American novelist and short story writer.


Author's life and works

Life and works from Literature Online biography

"Kate Chopin, A Woman Ahead of Her Time"

"Kate Chopin A Re-Awakeing"


"The Story of an Hour”

Full text

"An overview of 'The Story of an Hour'"
by Jennifer Hicks, in Short Stories for Students, Gale Research, 1997.

"Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'"
by Daniel P. Deneau, from Explicator, Summer 2003

"Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'"
by Lawrence I. Berkove, American Literary Realism 32, Winter 2000


Author links

The Kate Chopin International Society
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Links to Chopin's works