Joan Lucille Chase (November 26, 1936 – April 17, 2018)[1][2] was an American novelist.
Joan Strausbaugh was born in Wooster, Ohio in 1936; she and her family moved frequently due to her father's academic career.
Chase also taught periodically at the Iowa Writers Workshop and Princeton University.
In 1959, Strausbaugh married Richard Chase, an economist; they had two children together, a son and a daughter.
[2] Chase died on 17 April 2018 at a nursing home in Needham, Massachusetts, at the age of 81.