![]() She also excelled as an art student at the Philadelphia High School for Girls (now combined with Central High School). Chase-Riboud displayed an early talent for the arts and began attending the Fleisher Art Memorial School at the age of 8. The only child of Vivian May Chase, a histology technician and Charles Edward Chase, a contractor. She divides her time between Paris and Rome. In 1996, she was knighted by the French Government and received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1965, she became the first American woman to visit the People's Republic of China after the revolution. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Carl Sandburg Prize for poetry and the Women's Caucus for Art's lifetime achievement award. ![]() In addition to stimulating considerable controversy, the book earned Chase-Riboud the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best novel written by an American woman and sold more than one million copies in hardcover. The novel has been described as the "first full blown imagining" of Hemings' life as a slave and her relationship with Jefferson. Much of her work has explored themes related to slavery and exploitation of women.Ĭhase-Riboud attained international recognition with the publication of her first novel, Sally Hemings, in 1979. ![]() An American novelist, poet, sculptor and visual artist, perhaps best known for her historical fiction. ![]()
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