"(Which novels have had the most impact on you as a writer? Is there a particular book that made you want to write?) Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, which I first read in college. The story of Edna Pontellier’s struggle with the limits her culture placed on women made a deep and lasting impression on me."
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1851 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels.
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