Kate Chopin Biography

Kate Chopin and The Awakening
<Tab/>Kate Chopin, born Catherine O'Flaherty was born on July 12, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother was a French-American, Eliza Faris and her father Thomas, an Irish immigrant. They were a happy family until her father died suddenly in 1855. A life surrounded by a father figure had ceased. She then had only female role models in her widowed mother, widowed grandmother and widowed great grandmother. Her other siblings also died while still in childhood. In 1868 Kate graduated from the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart. She was th…