Joan Chase

Joan L. Chase (November 26, 1936 Wooster, Ohio – April 17, 2018)[1][2] was an American novelist.

Biography

Joan Chase moved from town to town in Ohio throughout her childhood.[1] She graduated from the University of Maryland magna cum laude. From 1980 to 1984, she was an assistant director of the Ragdale Foundation.[3] She was a member of PEN.[4] Her first novel, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia was published in 1983 and won the PEN/Hemingway Prize for First Fiction by an American author.[5] The book was republished in 2014 by New York Review Books with an introduction by Meghan O'Rourke. Chase died on 17 April 2018 at the age of 81, after a long illness.[1]

Awards

Works
  • During the Reign of the Queen of Persia. HarperCollins Publishers. 1983. ISBN 978-0-06-015136-2.
  • The Evening Wolves. Ballantine Books. 1990. ISBN 978-0-345-36285-8.
  • Bonneville Blue. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 1991. ISBN 978-0-374-11539-5.

References
  1. Marquard, Bryan. "Joan Chase, at 81; her first novel illuminated the lives of four girls on a rural farm". Boston Globe Obituaries. Boston Globe. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/obituaries/joan-chase-who-drew-acclaim-with-first-novel-at-46-dies-at-81.html
  3. http://www.ohioana-authors.org/chase/index.php
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2009-12-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Diamond, Jason (Mar 28, 2014). "Book of the Week: 'During the Reign of the Queen of Persia' by Joan Chase". Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  6. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1985. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, Inc. p. 415. ISBN 0-911818-71-5.
  7. "Joan Chase". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  8. http://www.gf.org/fellows/2500-joan-l-chase
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