Brian Leung (author)
Brian Leung | |
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| Born | San Diego County, California |
| Language | English |
| Education | BA, MA, MFA |
| Alma mater | California State University (BA, MA), Indiana University (MFA) |
| Genre | fiction |
| Notable awards | Asian American Literary Award (2005)Mary McArthy Award for ShortFiction (2004)Willa Award for Historical Fiction (2011) |
| Website | |
| readbrianleung | |
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 two 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. ISBN 978-1-889330-16-7
- Lost Men: A Novel, Three Rivers Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-35165-4
- Take Me Home: A Novel, Harper Collins, 2010. ISBN 0-06-176907-X
References
- ^ a b "Brian Leung: About the Author: HarperCollins Publishers". Harpercollins.com. March 24, 2010. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
- ^ Stacey D’Erasmo and Brian Leung Named 2012 Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize Winners. Lambda Literary Foundation, May 15, 2012.
- ^ "Brian Leung Online". Readbrianleung.com. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
Categories:
- Living people
- Indiana University alumni
- 21st-century American novelists
- American novelists of Asian descent
- American short story writers
- Writers from California
- American male novelists
- LGBT writers from the United States
- Gay writers
- LGBT American people of Asian descent
- LGBT novelists
- American male short story writers