Kate Chopin (1851-1904) did not write until she was thirty-six
years old. Her first novel, At Fault (1890), had difficulty finding
a publisher, so she brought it out at her own expense. From her
many stories, she culled two well-reviewed collections- Bayou Folk
in 1894 and A Night in Acadie in 1897. The Awakening, now her
best-known work, appeared in 1899.
Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn and Gold Fame
Citrus. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, One Story,
The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A Guggenheim Fellow,
one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" and Granta's
"Best Young American Novelists," Claire is the director and
co-founder of the Mojave School, a festival of art and literature
in the Mojave Desert.
"A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin's."
--Willa Cather
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