凯特·肖班(Kate Chopin)是美国女作家,目前,在我国尚鲜为人知。 她于1851年出生于密苏里州的圣·路易斯(St·Louis Missouri),在那里,她受教于罗马天主教修女院,能讲流利的法语,是当时“众所公认的美女之一”。十九岁时,嫁给了奥斯卡·肖班(Oscar Chopin),随即和丈夫移居新奥尔良,并在此度过了十三年。丈夫患疟疾死后,她带着六个孩子重返圣·路易斯,因厌倦家庭妇女的生活,便开 Kate Chopin, a woman writer in the United States, is still unknown in our country. Born in 1851 in St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri, where she was taught at the Roman Catholic Nuns, fluent in French, was “one of the most recognized beauty” at the time. At the age of 19, she married Oscar Chopin and immediately moved to New Orleans with her husband and spent 13 years there. After her husband died of malaria, she returned to St. Louis with six children and was tired of the lives of domestic women