Virginia Lowell Chase Perkins (1902 - 1987)

Genre: Non-Fiction, Children's Literature, General Fiction

Born on 31 Jul 1902 in Blue Hill and raised there, the younger sister of Mary Ellen Chase, Virginia Chase Perkins graduated from the University of Minnesota and got her MA from Wayne State University. She and her husband lived for a while in Connecticut, where she taught at Hartford College. In 1940, Perkins won the Avery Hopwood Award for fiction. Her works include fiction: The American House (1944), Discovery (1948), The End of the Week (1953), and One Crow, Two Crows (1971), as well as non-fiction: The Writing of Modern Prose (1936), and a work for children: The Knight of the Golden Fleece (1959). Some of her works are collected in Speaking of Maine: Selections from the Writings of Virginia Chase (1983). She died on 20 Feb 1987 in New Town, PA.


Last Update: 08/02/2007

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