Kate Chopin, The Locket
b'When tonight\\u2019s author, Kate Chopin (1850-1904), was fifteen years old and living in St. Louis, Missouri, she snatched from the family\\u2019s front porch a flag put up by the victorious Union Army. She was promptly arrested and earned herself the affectionate label of the \\u201cLittlest Rebel in St. Louis.\\u201d\\nWhen she was married, she and her husband moved to Louisiana, where she began her career as a writer. She was a well-regarded author in her own lifetime but fell into obscurity for many years, dismissed as a \\u201cregional writer.\\u201d She was rediscovered and seriously reconsidered by the feminist movement of the 1960s, which brought attention to the work of women who had been excluded from the literary canon by its male creators. Today, her work seems assured of its proper place in the canon of American literature. Our story tonight is called \\u201cThe Locket.\\u201d'