Kate Chopin (1851-1904) brought out her first novel, At Fault , at her own expense in 1890.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature..
H er most recent novels are Perestroika in Paris and A Dangerous Business .
ABOUT THE INTRODUCER: JANE SMILEY is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck, Early Warning, and Golden Age.
However, within a decade of her early death at the age of fifty-four, her literary genius began to be widely recognized.
The Awakening appeared in 1899 to an explosion of disapproving reviews and the cancellation of her next book contract.
It was followed by two well-reviewed collections of her short stories: Bayou Folk in 1894 and A Night in Acadie in 1897.
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) brought out her first novel, At Fault , at her own expense in 1890
