Louise Wareham Leonard


Louise Wareham Leonard is an American writer born in New Zealand.
She has three brothers, one of whom is Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500 and Luna.
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Early life

Leonard was an intern at TIME Magazine age 20, while a student at Columbia College, New York, then a magazine writer, mostly in travel. She was also a part-time assistant to Black liberation theology founder Rev. Prof. James H. Cone at the Union Theological Seminary.
In 2011, she co-established a not-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center in the outback town of Mt Magnet in Western Australia.

Author

Her novels and novellas explore "the search for sanity" in a world of "priapic narcissism".
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." It won the 1999 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award.
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".
Other publications by Leonard include Blood Is Blood and the essay "The German Crowd". Her work has been published in Poetry, Tin House, TheRumpus.net, Art Monthly Australia and elsewhere.

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.

Works

Fiery World Blood is Blood Since You Ask Miss Me A Lot Of 52 Men
  • "The German Crowd"

Awards and honors