Joan Chase
Joan Chase | |
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Born | November 26, 1936 Ohio |
Died | April 17, 2018 |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Maryland |
Genre | novels |
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.
Death[]
Chase died on 17 April 2018 at the age of 81, after a long illness.[1]
Awards[]
- 1983, PEN/Hemingway Prize[6]
- 1984, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- 1987, Whiting Award[7]
- 1990, Guggenheim Fellowship[8][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[]
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
- ^ Verongos, Helen T. (May 3, 2018). "Joan Chase, Who Drew Acclaim With First Novel at 46, Dies at 81". The New York Times. Retrieved Sep 11, 2020.
- ^ http://www.ohioana-authors.org/chase/index.php
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2009-12-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Diamond, Jason (Mar 28, 2014). "Book of the Week: 'During the Reign of the Queen of Persia' by Joan Chase". Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ^ The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1985. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, Inc. 1984. p. 415. ISBN 0-911818-71-5.
- ^ "Joan Chase". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ 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
Categories:
- 20th-century American novelists
- People from Wooster, Ohio
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- 1936 births
- 2018 deaths
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers