David Wong Louie

David Wong Louie (Chinese: 雷祖威; pinyin: Léi Zǔwēi; December 20, 1954 – September 19, 2018)[1] was a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer.

David Wong Louie
Born(1954-12-20)December 20, 1954
Rockville Centre, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 19, 2018(2018-09-19) (aged 63)
Genrenovel, short story
Notable worksPangs of Love
The Barbarians Are Coming
Notable awardsFirst Fiction Award from Los Angeles Times and from Ploughshares
John C. Zacharis First Book Award
UCLA's Shirley Collier Prize

Born in Rockville Centre, New York, Louie graduated from East Meadow High School in 1973, as "one of the few Asian-Americans" in the school.[2]

Literary career

He received an M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 1981 and a BA from Vassar College in 1977. He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles.[3]

Awards

Pangs of Love received the 1991 First Fiction Award from the Los Angeles Times and the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares.[4] It was also named a Notable Book by The New York Times and a Voice Literary Supplement Favorite. The Barbarians are Coming won the Shirley Collier Prize.

In 2001, he was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He has also had a fellowship with the National Foundation for the Advancement of Arts.

His short story "Displacement" was included in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt October 6, 2015.

His essay "Eat, Memory," originally published in Harper's Magazine in August 2017, was included in Best American Essays 2018, edited by Hilton Als.[5]

Works
  • Pangs of Love: stories. Knopf. 1991. ISBN 978-0-394-58957-2.
  • The Barbarians are Coming. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2000. ISBN 978-0-399-14603-9.[6]
  • A Contemporary Asian American Anthology with Marilyn Chin.

Anthologies
  • Terrell Dixon, ed. (2002). "Bottles of Beaujolais". City wilds: essays and stories about urban nature. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2339-8.

See also

Critical studies

from March 2008:

  1. Caucasian Partners and Generational Conflicts-David Wong Louie's Pangs of Love By: Wen-ching Ho, EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies, 2004 June; 34 (2): 231–64. (In Chinese)
  2. 'The Most Outrageous Masquerade': Queering Asian-American Masculinity By: Crystal Parikh, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 2002 Winter; 48 (4): 858–98. (journal article)
  3. Toward a More Worldly World Series: Reading Game Three of the 1998 American League Championship and David Wong Louie's 'Warming Trends' By: Jeff Partridge, American Studies International, 2000 June; 38 (2): 115–25. (journal article)
  4. Stacey Yukari Hirose (2000). Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. p. 189–214. ISBN 9780824822163.
  5. Saddle ; Zyzzyva, 1999 Winter; 15 (3): 116–21.
  6. Chinese/Asian American Men in the 1990s: Displacement, Impersonation, Paternity, and Extinction in David Wong Louie's Pangs of Love By: Sau-ling Cynthia Wong. IN: Okihiro, Alquizola, Rony and Wong, Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies. Pullman: Washington State UP; 1995. pp. 181–91
  7. Cynthia Kadohata and David Wong Louie: The Pangs of a Floating World By: Sheila Sarkar; Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism, 1994 Winter; 2 (1): 79–97.
  8. Affirmations: Speaking the Self into Being By: Manini Samarth; Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 1992; 17 (1): 88–101.

References
  1. "In Memoriam: David Wong Louie". UCLA Department of English. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  2. Slotnik, Daniel E. "David Wong Louie, Who Probed Ethnic Identity in Fiction, Dies at 63", The New York Times, September 27, 2018. Accessed November 25, 2020. "Mr. Louie was born on Dec. 20, 1954, in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Long Island, to Henry and Yu Lan (Mok) Louie.... He was one of the few Asian-Americans at East Meadow High School.... He graduated from high school in 1973 and earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Vassar College in 1977 and a master’s in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1981."
  3. http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Barbarians-to-Invade-Chronicle-Book-Club-2795094.php
  4. http://www.pshares.org/about/zacharis-award-winners.cfm
  5. Best American Essays 2018. Houghton Mifflin. 2018. ISBN 9780544817340.
  6. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/v003/3.3cacho.html
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