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

Early life

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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 a reporter at the capital city newspaper The Dominion Post in Wellington, New Zealand; she wrote news, reviews and features. At age eighteen, in New York City, she joined TIME magazine as a part-time secretary; at twenty, while a student at Columbia College, New York, she was an intern reporter in Time's New York bureau.

Leonard was then a magazine writer, mostly in travel.[3] 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.[4]

In 2011, she co-established a not-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center in the outback town of Mt Magnet in Western Australia.[5]

Author

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Her novels and novellas explore ‘the search for sanity’ (Dame Fiona Kidman) in a world of ‘priapic narcissism’ (Stout scholar John Newton.[6])

Since You Ask is an "intense and insightful work about a childhood sexual abuse survivor that portrays a complicated character and her multifaceted mind with deep empathy."[7] It won the 1999 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award.[8]

Miss Me A Lot Of is a story about "the fate of beauty and attractiveness."[9] "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[10]

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 Nights or Renata Adler’s Speedboat, it is, like both of these books, a novel of impressions unified by the author’s sensibility".[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]

Podcast

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"52 Men the Podcast: Women Telling Stories about Men" is a 25 episode series featuring one writer per episode. Authors include Lynne Tillman, Mia Funk,Jane Alison, Caroline Leavitt, Emily Holleman, Eliza Factor, Julia Slavin and many more.[21]

Works

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  • Fiery World (Amazon Kindle, 2022)[22]
  • Blood is Blood (Amazon Kindle, 2022)[23]
  • Since You Ask (Akashic Books, New York, 2004)[24]
  • Miss Me A Lot Of (Victoria University Press, New Zealand, 2007)[25]
  • 52 Men (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, 2015)[26]
  • "The German Crowd" (Subnivean, 2020)[27]

Awards and honors

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  • 1986 Columbia College, Columbia University Representative in the Mount Holyoke Poetry Prize, with judges Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky[28]
  • 1986 Columbia College, Columbia University, Andrew D. Fried Memorial Prize "given to a senior in Columbia College judged by the Columbia College English Department to have excelled in both critical and creative writing"[29]
  • 1999 James Jones First Novel Award for a novel in Progress[30]
  • 2006, 2008 Finalist for The New Zealand Prize in Modern Letters[31]
  • 2008 Creative New Zealand Grant[32]
  • 2016 Founding Member of the Academy of New Zealand Literature[33]

References

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  1. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  2. ^ "Contributors". Poetry. 165 (5): 300–302. 1995. ISSN 0032-2032. JSTOR 20604325.
  3. ^ https://jamesjonesliterarysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/vol-9-no-2-winter-1999-2000.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ Cone, James H (1999). Risks of Faith. Beacon Press.
  5. ^ "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on e. L. Grant Watson". Tin House. 5 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard".
  7. ^ "Since You Ask by Louise Wareham, PopMatters". 21 September 2004.
  8. ^ https://jamesjonesliterarysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/vol-9-no-2-winter-1999-2000.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  9. ^ "Miss Me a Lot of, Louise Wareham 9780864735553".
  10. ^ "Miss Me a Lot of, Louise Wareham 9780864735553".
  11. ^ Amanda, Fortini (2016-04-29). "Why Can't You Be Sweet". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  12. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Blood Is Blood.
  13. ^ "LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD". Subnivean. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  14. ^ "Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  15. ^ "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on E. L. Grant Watson". Tin House. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  16. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". TheRumpus.net. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  17. ^ "Art Monthly Australasia - Issue 217". reader.exacteditions.com. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  18. ^ "The Mail". The New Yorker. 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  19. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Fourteen Lines. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  20. ^ "Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  21. ^ oundcloud.com/user-612823722 "52 Men the Podcast". SoundCloud. Retrieved 2020-07-09. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  22. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Fiery World – via Amazon.com.
  23. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Blood Is Blood – via Amazon.com.
  24. ^ "Since You Ask". Akashic Books. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  25. ^ Miss me a lot of. worldcat.org. OCLC 166317790. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  26. ^ "52 Men". Red Hen Press. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  27. ^ "LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD". Subnivean. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  28. ^ List of Glascock Prize winners and participants
  29. ^ "Contributors". Poetry. 165 (5): 300–302. 1995. ISSN 0032-2032. JSTOR 20604325.
  30. ^ "2018 First Novel Fellowship awardees". The James Jones Society. 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  31. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard Products - Victoria University Press". vup.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  32. ^ "Creative New Zealand Grants JULY – OCTOBER FUNDING ROUND 2007/2008" (PDF). Creative New Zealand. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-10.
  33. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
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