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. Verongos, Helen T. (May 3, 2018). "Joan Chase, Who Drew Acclaim With First Novel at 46, Dies at 81". Retrieved Sep 11, 2020 – via NYTimes.com.
  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. 1984. 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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