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Author Kate Chopin was born in 1850, in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she lived until the age of 21, when she moved to New Orleans. She lived in Louisiana for fourteen years, both in New Orleans in in a Creole community in Natchitoches Parish in northwest Louisiana, but moved back to St. Louis after her husband's death and a failed attempt to keep his business alive. Kate Chopin stayed in the city until her death in 1904.