Leah Redmond Chang is an author and literature scholar. Her works have focused on women's historical subjects including biography and literary non-fiction. She is a former associate professor of French literature and culture at the George Washington University.[1][2]
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| Pen name | Leah L. Chang |
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| Period | 2009–present |
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Her book, Young Queens, was recognized as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Biography),[3] one of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2023,[4] one of BookRiot's Best Biography's of 2023,[5] recognized as one of Waterstones' Best Books of the Year: History,[6] and Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize in Non-Fiction.[7]
Her early scholarly works, including Portraits of the Queen Mother[8] and Into Print[9], were published under the name Leah L. Chang.
She divides her time between Washington D.C and London, UK.
Publications
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edit- Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of three queens:[10] Bloomsbury UK 2023
- Young Queens - Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power:[11] Farrar, Straus and Giroux US 2023
- Portraits of the Queen Mother: Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters:[12] Iter Press 2014
- Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France:[13] University of Delaware Press 2009
Articles
edit- Five Best: Books on Unsung Women[14] wsj.com October 4, 2023
- I want readers to relate to these queens as women, to get lost in the story of Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary[15] bloomsbury.com May 4, 2023
References
edit- ^ Brewer, Robert Lee (2023-08-13). "Leah Redmond Chang: Breathing Life Into the History of Misunderstood and Forgotten Queens". Writer's Digest. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ Kalb, Deborah (2023-08-15). "Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb: Q&A with Leah Redmond Chang". Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ "Raja Shehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists". Los Angeles Times. 2024-02-21. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ Yorker, The New (2023-01-25). "The Best Books of 2023". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ Connor, C. J. (2023-09-21). "The Best New Biographies of 2023". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ "The Best Books of 2023: History". October 18, 2023.
- ^ "Women's Prize For Non Fiction". Women's Prize. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ "Leah L. Chang". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ Larsen, Anne R; Chang, Leah L (2010). "Review of Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France, Leah L. Chang". Renaissance Quarterly. 63 (1): 280–282. doi:10.1086/652599. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 10.1086/652599.
- ^ Chang, Leah Redmond (2024). Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of three queens. Bloomsbury UK. ISBN 978-1526613431.
- ^ Chang, Leah L. (2023). Young queens: three Renaissance women and the price of power. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-29448-9.
- ^ Chang, Leah Redmond; Kong, Katherine, eds. (2014). Portraits of the Queen Mother: polemics, panegyrics, letters. The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto series. Toronto: Iter Inc. ISBN 978-0-7727-2172-3.
- ^ Chang, Leah L. (2009). Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 978-1611491135.
- ^ Chang, Leah Redmond (October 4, 2023). "Five Best: Books on Unsung Women". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Chang, Leah Redmond (May 4, 2023). ""I want readers to relate to these queens as women, to get lost in the story of Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary"". Bloomsbury.