The Real Kate Chopin
Lorraine Nye Eliot was raised in New York City. She received her baccalaureate from New College, Columbia University, and completed her doctorate in French literature during WWII at Sorbonne, Universite de Paris. La Femme dans L’Oeuvre de Maupassant, the result of her interest in the characterization of women in the French novel, was published in Paris. After a career in the foreign service Ms. Eliot returned to literature and became fascinated by the life and writing of Kate Chopin. She divides her time between Washington, D.C., Seattle, Washington, and a summer home in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut.