Sometimes an author puts one book into the world that, in its time, is showered with acclaim and awards. Then, for whatever reason, that author slowly fades away. It’s not always fair to call them one-hit wonders, but in the case of an author like Joan Chase, whose 1983 debut During the Reign of the Queen of Persia was recently reprinted by NYRB Classics, the question of why such a gifted writer only published two more novels (1990′s The Evening Wolves and 1991′s Bonneville Blue) is intriguing.
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