Louise Wareham Leonard
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Louise Wareham Leonard is an American writer born in New Zealand.[1][2] She has three brothers, one of whom is Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500 and Luna.
Leonard was an intern at TIME Magazine age 20, while a student at Columbia College, New York, 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.[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
Her novels and novellas explore "the search for sanity" (according to Dame Fiona Kidman) in a world of "priapic narcissism" (according to 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.[3]
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".[8]
Other publications by Leonard include Blood Is Blood[9] and the essay "The German Crowd" (2020).[10] Her work has been published in Poetry,[11] Tin House,[12] TheRumpus.net,[13] Art Monthly Australia[14] and elsewhere.[15][16][11]
Podcast
Leonard also founded, produced and hosted 52 Men, the Podcast: Women Telling Stories about Men, a 25 episode series featuring one writer per episode. Authors include Lynne Tillman, Mia Funk, Jane Alison, Caroline Leavitt, Emily Holleman, Eliza Factor, and Julia Slavin.[17]
