A biography of Kate Chopin

Biography of Kate Chopin On February 8, 1950, Kate O'Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was an Irishman named Thomas O'Flaherty and her mother was an American-French woman named Eliza Faris O'Flaherty. She had four other brothers and sisters. Her sisters died as infants and her brothers before they turned 25. When Kate was five and a half years old, she was sent to Sacred Heart Academy, a catholic boarding school. Two months later, her …

…Kate, now a well known woman, published over 100 stories and sketches. When the Awakening was published, there was a lot of chaos because of the message that was in it. Kate was not accepted in the St. Louis Fine Art Club. Because of this, Kate Chopin only wrote a few stories, and only a few of those were actually published. Kate's very last story was Polly. On August 22, 1904, Kate Chopin died of a cerebral hemorrhage.