Joan L. Chase (November 26, 1936

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– April 17, 2018) was an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

Biography

Joan Chase moved from town to town in

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throughout her childhood. She graduated from the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

magna cum laude. From 1980 to 1984, she was an assistant director of the Ragdale Foundation. She was a member of PEN. 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

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with an introduction by

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Death

Chase died on 17 April 2018 at a nursing home in Needham, Mass., at the age of 81, after a long illness.

Awards

* 1983,

PEN/Hemingway Prize The PEN/Hemingway Award is awarded annually to a full-length novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a full-length book of fiction. The award is named after Ernest Hemingway and funded by the Hemingwa ...

* 1984,

Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize is a literary award presented annually for the "best book-length work of prose fiction" by an American woman. The award has been given by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Depar ...

* 1987, Whiting Award * 1990,

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Works

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References

External links

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Whiting Foundation Profile
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