Joan Chase

Joan L. Chase (November 26, 1936 Wooster, Ohio – April 17, 2018) was an American novelist.

Joan Chase 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 theRagdale 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 New York Review Books with an introduction by Meghan O'Rourke. Chase died on 17 April 2018 at the age of 81, after a long illness.

• 1983, PEN/Hemingway Prize
• 1984, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
• 1987, Whiting Award
• 1990, Guggenheim Fellowship

• 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.