David Wong Louie

David Wong Louie is an writer of novels and .

Literary career

He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 1981 and a B.A. from Vassar College in 1977. He teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles.

His works include ''Pangs of Love'', a collection of short stories, and the novel ''The Barbarians are Coming''. He co-edited ''A Contemporary Asian American Anthology'' with Marilyn Chin.

Awards

''Pangs of Love'' received the 1991 First Fiction Award from the Los Angeles Times and the Ploughshares First Fiction Book Award. It was also named a Notable Book by the New York Times and a Favorite. ''The Barbarians are Coming'' won the . He has also won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award.

In 2001, he was awarded a . He has also had a fellowship with the National Foundation for the Arts.

Critical studies

from March 2008:
#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 : 231-64.
#'The Most Outrageous Masquerade': Queering Asian-American Masculinity By: Crystal Parikh, ''MFS: Modern Fiction Studies'', 2002 Winter; 48 : 858-98.
#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 : 115-25.
#David Wong Louie By: Stacey Yukari Hirose. IN: Cheung, ''Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers''. Honolulu, HI: U of Hawaii P, with UCLA Asian American Studies Center; 2000. pp. 189-214
#Saddle ; ''Zyzzyva'', 1999 Winter; 15 : 116-21.
#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
#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 : 79-97.
#Affirmations: Speaking the Self into Being By: Manini Samarth; ''Parnassus: Poetry in Review'', 1992; 17 : 88-101.