Biography:Leah Redmond Chang
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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]
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
Books
- 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
- 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
- ↑ Brewer, Robert Lee (2023-08-13). "Leah Redmond Chang: Breathing Life Into the History of Misunderstood and Forgotten Queens" (in en). https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-nonfiction/leah-redmond-chang-breathing-life-into-the-history-of-misunderstood-and-forgotten-queens.
- ↑ Kalb, Deborah (2023-08-15). "Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb: Q&A with Leah Redmond Chang". https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2023/08/q-with-leah-redmond-chang.html.
- ↑ "Raja Shehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists" (in en-US). 2024-02-21. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-21/l-a-times-book-prize-finalists-2023.
- ↑ Yorker, The New (2023-01-25). "The Best Books of 2023" (in en-US). The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2023. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ↑ Connor, C. J. (2023-09-21). "The Best New Biographies of 2023" (in en-US). https://bookriot.com/best-biographies-2023/.
- ↑ "The Best Books of 2023: History". October 18, 2023. https://www.waterstones.com/blog/the-best-books-of-2023-history.
- ↑ "Women's Prize For Non Fiction" (in en-US). https://womensprize.com/prizes/womens-prize-for-non-fiction/.
- ↑ "Leah L. Chang" (in en). https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/C/L/au23515989.html.
- ↑ 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. https://www.jstor.org/stable/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, ed (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". https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/five-best-books-on-unsung-women-fadeac28.
- ↑ 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"". https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/articles/interviews/i-want-readers-to-relate-to-these-queens-as-women-to-get-lost-in-the-story-of-catherine-elisabeth-and-mary/.
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