Louise Wareham Leonard Explained

Louise Wareham Leonard
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Louise Wareham Leonard is an American writer born in New Zealand.[1] [2]

Early life

Louise Wareham Leonard immigrated from New Zealand to New York City in 1977 with her family. Her older brother is singer-songwriter Dean Wareham, most known for his work with Galaxie 500 and Luna.

While in school, Leonard was an intern at "Our Town" on the Upper East Side and a junior reporter at the capital newspaper The Dominion Post in Wellington, New Zealand; she wrote news, reviews and several features. At age eighteen, she joined TIME magazine as a part-time secretary; at twenty, when a college student at Columbia College, New York she was an intern reporter in Time's New York bureau.

Leonard was then a magazine writer. She was also a part time assistant to Black liberation theology founder Rev. Prof. James H. Cone at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.[3]

In 2011, she co-established a not-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center in the outback town of Mt Magnet in Western Australia.[4]

Author

Her novels and novellas explore ‘the search for sanity’ (Dame Fiona Kidman) in a world of ‘priapic narcissism’ (Stout scholar John Newton.[5])

Since You Ask is an "intense and insightful work about a childhod sexual abuse Survivor that portrays a complicated character and her multifaceted mind with deep empathy.[6] " It won the 1999 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award.[7]

Miss Me A Lot Of is a story about "the fate of beauty and attractiveness."[8] ."Like uncovering a secret, finding a good novel puts one deliciously in the know, with the accompanying thrills of disclosure. Miss Me a Lot Of provides thrills galore; it is simply stunning." -Louise O'Brien, The Dominion Post [9]

52 Men centers on Elise McKnight and fifty-two vignettes of her interactions with various men. The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote "Although in style and tone 52 Men differs from either Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nightss or Renata Adler’s Speedboat, it is, like both of these books, a novel of impressions unified by the author’s sensibility".[10] It was the basis of the 2016 podcast "52 Men the Podcast: Women Telling Stories about Men" with 25 episodes featuring Lynne Tillman, Jane Alison, Caroline Leavitt, Emily Holleman, Mia Funk, Eliza Factor, Julia Slavin and many more.[11]

Other publications by Leonard include Blood Is Blood,[12] and the essay "The German Crowd" (2020).[13] Her work has been published in Poetry[14] , Tin House,[15] TheRumpus.net,[16] Art Monthly Australia[17] and elsewhere.[18] [19] [20]

Works

Awards and honors

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Louise Wareham Leonard . 2022-08-26 . Academy of New Zealand Literature . en-NZ.
  2. 1995 . Contributors . Poetry . 165 . 5 . 300–302 . 20604325 . 0032-2032.
  3. Book: Cone, James H. Risks of Faith. Beacon Press. 1999.
  4. Web site: Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on e. L. Grant Watson. 5 July 2017. Tin House.
  5. https://www.anzliterature.com/member/louise-wareham-leonard/
  6. https://www.popmatters.com/since-you-ask-2496242607.html
  7. https://jamesjonesliterarysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/vol-9-no-2-winter-1999-2000.pdf
  8. https://www.ebay.com/itm/276044725538
  9. https://www.ebay.com/itm/276044725538
  10. Web site: Amanda . Fortini . 2016-04-29 . Why Can't You Be Sweet . 2022-07-30 . Los Angeles Review of Books . en.
  11. Web site: 52 Men the Podcast . 2020-07-09 . SoundCloud . en.
  12. Book: Leonard, Louise Wareham . Blood Is Blood . English.
  13. Web site: LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD . 2022-08-25 . Subnivean . en.
  14. Web site: 2022-08-25 . Poetry Magazine . 2022-08-26 . Poetry Foundation . en.
  15. Web site: 2017-07-05 . Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on E. L. Grant Watson . 2022-08-26 . Tin House . en-US.
  16. Web site: Louise Wareham Leonard . 2022-08-26 . TheRumpus.net.
  17. Web site: Art Monthly Australasia - Issue 217 . 2022-08-26 . reader.exacteditions.com.
  18. 2021-12-03 . The Mail . 2022-08-26 . The New Yorker . en-US.
  19. Web site: Louise Wareham Leonard . 2022-08-26 . Fourteen Lines . en.
  20. Web site: 2022-08-25 . Poetry Magazine . 2022-08-26 . Poetry Foundation . en.
  21. Book: Leonard, Louise Wareham . Fiery World . Amazon.com.
  22. Book: Leonard, Louise Wareham . Blood Is Blood . English . Amazon.com.
  23. Web site: Since You Ask . 2022-08-25 . Akashic Books . en-US.
  24. Book: Miss me a lot of . 2022-08-25 . worldcat.org. 166317790 .
  25. Web site: 52 Men . 2022-08-25 . Red Hen Press . en-US.
  26. Web site: LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD . 2022-08-25 . Subnivean . en.
  27. [List of Glascock Prize winners and participants]
  28. 1995 . Contributors . Poetry . 165 . 5 . 300–302 . 20604325 . 0032-2032.
  29. Web site: 2018-09-13. 2018 First Novel Fellowship awardees. 2020-07-09. The James Jones Society. en.
  30. Web site: Louise Wareham Leonard Products - Victoria University Press. 2020-07-09. vup.victoria.ac.nz.
  31. Web site: Creative New Zealand . Creative New Zealand Grants JULY – OCTOBER FUNDING ROUND 2007/2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200710001756/http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/assets/ckeditor/attachments/104/07-08-01-funding.pdf . 2020-07-10.
  32. Web site: Louise Wareham Leonard. 2020-07-09. Academy of New Zealand Literature. en-NZ.

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