Brian Leung (author)

Brian Leung is an American fiction writer, whose short story collection World Famous Love Acts won the 2005 Asian American Literary Award for fiction and the Mary McCarthy Award in Short Fiction. He has also written two novels.

Personal background

Leung was born and grew up in San Diego County, California, to a Chinese father who had immigrated to the US and a mother from Battleground, Washington.

He won the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, presented by the Lambda Literary Awards, in 2012.

Published works

Leung has written the following books:

• World Famous Love Acts, Sarabande Books, 2004. ISBN 978-1-889330-16-7
• Lost Men: A Novel, Three Rivers Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-35165-4
• Take Me Home: A Novel, Harper Collins, 2010. ISBN 0-06-176907-X

• "Brian Leung Online". Readbrianleung.com. Retrieved December 22, 2011.