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Name
  
Joan Chase


Role
  
Novelist

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Education
  
University of Maryland, College Park

Awards
  
Whiting Awards, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

Books
  
During the Reign of the Quee, The evening wolves, Bonneville blue

Joan L. Chase (born Wooster, Ohio) is an American novelist

Contents

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.

She is a member of PEN.

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. 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

    • 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

    Joan Chase Wikipedia
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