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| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) New Zealand |
| Citizenship | American |
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Louise Wareham Leonard (born 1965) is an American writer born in New Zealand. [1] [2]
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.
Leonard was a cadet and then Junior Reporter aged seventeen and eighteen at the former Dominion Post in Wellington, New Zealand; she wrote news,reviews and several features. Age 20, when a college student at Columbia College, New York she was an intern reporter in Time's New York bureau. This was followed by working as a sub-editor and then a primarily travel writer [3] and book reviewer. [4] [5] Leonard was assistant to Black liberation theology founder Rev. Prof. James H. Cone at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. [6] She later co-established a not-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center in the outback town of Mt Magnet in Western Australia. [7]
Her novels and novellas explore child sexual abuse, inequality and violence [8] and include Since You Ask, Miss Me A Lot Of, and 52 Men. [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 Nights 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 the poetry collection, 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]
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