Bayou Folk is a Chopin's classic book containing of 23 masterpiece short stories shows rural life in Louisiana after the American Civil War and how former slaves, people of color, women, poor whites, and wealthy whites chafed against social restrictions.Kate Chopin (18501904) is an American writer best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women. Her novel The Awakening and her short stories are read today in countries around the world, and she is widely recognized as one of Americas essential authors.Her short stories were well received in in the 1890s and were published by some of Americas most prestigious magazinesVogue, the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers Young People, the Youths Companion, and the Century. A few stories were syndicated by the American Press Association. Many of her stories also appeared in her two published collections, Bayou Folk(1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), both of which received good reviews from critics across the country who praised them for their graceful descriptions of the lives of Creoles, Acadians, African-Americans, and other people in Louisiana. Twenty-six of her stories are childrens storiesthose published in or intended for childrens or family magazinesthe Youths Companion and others. By the late 1890s Kate Chopin was well known among American readers of magazine fiction.