Joan Chase
Joan L. Chase (November 26, 1936 Wooster, Ohio – April 17, 2018)[1][2] was an American novelist
Life
She 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]
Chase died on 17 April 2018 at the age of 81, after a long illness.[1]
Career
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.
Awards
- 1983 PEN/Hemingway Prize
- 1984 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- 1987 Whiting Award
- 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship [6][1]
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
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/obituaries/joan-chase-who-drew-acclaim-with-first-novel-at-46-dies-at-81.html
- ^ http://www.ohioana-authors.org/chase/index.php
- ^ http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/38794
- ^ Diamond, Jason (Mar 28, 2014). "Book of the Week: 'During the Reign of the Queen of Persia' by Joan Chase". Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/2500-joan-l-chase
External links
- Donald J. Greiner (1993). "Joan Chase". Women without men: female bonding and the American novel of the 1980s. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-87249-884-6.
- Whiting Foundation Profile
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