Brian Leung (author) explained

Brian Leung
Birth Place:	San Diego County, California, U.S.
Language:	English
Education:	California State University (BA, MA) Indiana University (MFA)
Genre:	fiction
Awards:	Asian American Literary Award (2005)Mary McArthy Award for ShortFiction (2004)Willa Award for Historical Fiction (2011)

Brian Leung is an American fiction writer, whose short story collection World Famous Love Acts won the 2005 Asian American Literary Award for fiction and the Mary McCarthy Award in Short Fiction.^[1] He has also written three novels.

Personal background

Leung was born and grew up in San Diego County, California, to a Chinese father who had immigrated to the US and a mother from Battleground, Washington.^[1]

He won the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, presented by the Lambda Literary Awards, in 2012.^[2]

Published works

Leung has written the following books:^[3]

• World Famous Love Acts, Sarabande Books, 2004.
• Lost Men: A Novel, Three Rivers Press, 2007.
• Take Me Home: A Novel, HarperCollins, 2010.
• Ivy Vs. Dogg: With A Cast Of Thousands!, C&R Press, 2018
• All I Should Not Tell, C&R Press, 2021

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brian Leung: About the Author: HarperCollins Publishers . Harpercollins.com . March 24, 2010 . December 22, 2011.
2. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/foundation-updates/05/15/stacey-derasmo-and-brian-leung-named-2012-outstanding-mid-career-novelist-prize-winners/ Stacey D’Erasmo and Brian Leung Named 2012 Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize Winners
3. Web site: Brian Leung Online . https://web.archive.org/web/20071011143642/http://readbrianleung.com/index.cfm?p=2 . dead . October 11, 2007 . Readbrianleung.com . December 22, 2011 .