Joan Chase
Joan Chase | |
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| Born | November 26, 1936 Wooster, Ohio |
| Died | April 17, 2018 Needham, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Maryland |
| Genre | novels |
Joan Lucille Chase (November 26, 1936 – April 17, 2018)[1][2] was an American novelist.
Biography
Joan Strausbaugh was born in
Iowa Writers Workshop and Princeton University.[2]
Literary career
Chase's first novel, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia was published in 1983 when she was 47 years old.[3] She won the PEN/Hemingway Prize for First Fiction by an American author.[4] The book was republished in 2014 by New York Review Books with an introduction by Meghan O'Rourke.
Personal life
In 1959, Strausbaugh married Richard Chase, an economist; they had two children together, a son and a daughter. Joan and Richard later divorced. She married Alexander Solomita in 2009.[2]
Chase died on 17 April 2018 at a nursing home in Needham, Massachusetts, at the age of 81.Lewy Body disease.[2]
Awards
- 1983, PEN/Hemingway Prize[5]
- 1984, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- 1987, Whiting Award[6]
- 1990, Guggenheim Fellowship[7][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.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ Weldon, Amy (13 November 2014). "Joan Chase: Our Childhood Edens and Lost Orchards of Memory". The Millions.
- ^ Diamond, Jason (Mar 28, 2014). "Book of the Week: 'During the Reign of the Queen of Persia' by Joan Chase". Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ISBN 0-911818-71-5.
- ^ "Joan Chase". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ "Joan L. Chase - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04.
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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