বায়োগ্রাফি: Kate Chopin was a Lousiana based author whose works are now considered as classics, especially The awakening and she was one of the pioneers of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background. Her work often reflects the inner lives of sensitive, daring women. She was highly influenced by the writings of French writer GUY DE MAUPASSANT. Her novel The Awakening and her short stories are read today in countries around the world, and she is widely familiar as one of America's important authors. Born as Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri Chopin’s father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was a successful businessman who had immigrated to the United States from Galway, Ireland. Her mother, Eliza Faris, was his second wife and a well-connected member of the ethnic French community in St. Louis; Kate had 4 sisters and 2 half brothers. All her sisters died in infancy and lost her half brothers in their 20s and during the civil war along with her great-grandmother.