Joan Chase
Joan L. Chase (born Wooster, Ohio) is an American novelist
Life
She moved from town to town in Ohio throughout her childhood.
She graduated from the University of Maryland magna cum laude. From 1980 to 1984, she was an assistant director of the Ragdale Foundation.[1]
She is a member of PEN.[2]
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.[3] 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 [4]
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
- ↑ 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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