David Wong Louie

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox writer David Wong Louie (Template:Zh; December 20, 1954 – September 19, 2018)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer.

Life and career

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.<ref>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."</ref> He received an M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 1981 and an A.B. from Vassar College in 1977. He taught at Vassar College and the University of California, Los Angeles.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Louie's short story collection, Pangs of Love received the 1991 First Fiction Award from the Los Angeles Times and the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.

Louie's essay "Eat, Memory," on his experience living with throat cancer, receiving a tracheostomy tube, and using a G-tube for six years, was originally published in Harper's Magazine in August 2017. The essay was included in Best American Essays 2018, edited by Hilton Als.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Louie died due to throat cancer on September 19, 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Works

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• A Contemporary Asian American Anthology with Marilyn Chin.

Anthologies

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See also

• List of Asian American writers

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)
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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.

External links

• English at UCLA: David Wong Louie Template:Webarchive (accessed March 2008)