Kate Chopin Selected Bibliography

Kate Chopin is perhaps most famous for her controversial novel about Edna Pontellier. "The Awakening" has been banned, but it is also one of her most beloved works. To learn more about the life and works of Kate Chopin, take a look at this selected bibliography.

• Beer, Janet. "Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction." New York: Palgrave, 1997.
  
  
• Bloom, Harold, ed. "Kate Chopin." New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
  
  
• Bonner, Thomas. "The Kate Chopin Companion." Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1988.
  
  
• Boren, Lynda S., and Sara Davis. eds. "Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou." Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992.
  
  
• Ewell, Barbara C. "Kate Chopin." New York: Ungar Pub. Co., 1986.
  
  
• Gentry, Deborah. "Art of Dying: Suicide in the Works of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Sylvia Plath." New York: Lang, Peter Publishing, 1905.
  
  
• Petry, Alice. "Critical Essays on Kate Chopin." New York: Macmillan, 1996.
  
  
• Martin, Wendy, ed. "New Essays on 'The Awakening.'" New York: Cambridge, 1988.
  
  
• Seyersted, Per. "Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography." Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP 1969.
  
  
• Showalter, Elaine. "Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing." Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
  
  
• Skaggs, Peggy. "Kate Chopin." Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985.
  
  
• Springer, Marlene. "Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin: A Reference Guide." Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976.
  
  
• Taylor, Helen. "Gender, Race, and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, and Kate Chopin." Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989.
  
  
• Toth, Emily. "Kate Chopin." New York: Morrow, 1990.
  
  
• Walker, Nancy ed. "The Awakening: Kate Chopin." Boston: Bedford Books, 1994.