For 10 points, name this author of  The Awakening .
A character in a story by this author falls in love "like a pistol shot" with a girl standing beneath the same pillar where she was found sleeping as a baby. The protagonist of a story by this author drinks the "very elixir of life" while locked in her room before experiencing what doctors diagnose as "the joy that kills." A man burns a willow cradle because he believes his wife to be part (*)  black in a story by this author, who wrote a story in which Louise believes she's been freed by the death of her husband. This author of "Desiree's Baby" and "Story of an Hour" wrote a novel in which a friend of Mademoiselle Reisz  ("rise")  receives a note from her lover Robert Lebrun, prompting her to walk into the Gulf of Mexico. For 10 points, name this author of  The Awakening .
A character in a story by this author falls in love "like a pistol shot" with a girl standing beneath the same pillar where she was found sleeping as a baby.
Kate  Chopin  [or Katherine  O'Flaherty ] 