Louisiana novelist Kate Chopin's 1899 masterwork "The Awakening" has inspired two Hollywood movies and still shows up on ... "I sat in a chair for three to four hours a day for 10 years to ...

125 years after Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" was published, it continues to fascinate. PROVIDED PHOTO The area's propensity for destructive weather does come in up other ways.

Kate Chopin wrote The Awakening in 1899, just five years before her death. New Orleans has claimed several literary figures as its own -- Tennessee Williams is just the tip of the iceberg. The ...