This author's best known work sees Robert Lebrun and Edna Pontellier's doomed affair lead to the latter's suicide.
In one story by this author, an aged grandmother claims that other ethnicities are inferior, saying the "sound of the Irish voice is distressing to the sick," but she changes her mind after accidentally rescuing her own granddaughter. The actor Adrienne Farival gets banned from a convent in this author's story "Lilacs," while another work concerns Louise Mallard, who rejoices at a railroad accident that she thinks kills her husband Brently only to die of a heart attack when he comes home. Besides "A Matter of Prejudice" and that work, "The Story of an Hour," this author is known for a story that ends with a bonfire of dresses belonging to the adoptive daughter of the Valmondes, in which Armand finds a letter from his mother revealing that he is a mulatto. This author's best known work sees Robert Lebrun and Edna Pontellier's doomed affair lead to the latter's suicide. FTP, identify this American author of "Desiree's Baby" and The Awakening.
In one story by this author, an aged grandmother claims that other ethnicities are inferior, saying the "sound of the Irish voice is distressing to the sick," but she changes her mind after accidentally rescuing her own granddaughter.
Kate {Chopin}