Andrea Lee
Andrea Lee is an American author of novels and memoirs. Her stories are often international in setting and deal with questions of racial and national identity.[1]
Early life
Andrea Lee grew up in Philadelphia. Lee received a Bachelor's Degree and a master's degree from Harvard University. She lived in Russia for a year in 1978 with her former husband, recording her observations in a diary, which formed the basis for her first book Russian Journal (1981).[2]
Career
Lee is a contract writer for The New Yorker, and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Time, The Oxford American, and the textbook Elements of Literature. Her short story "Anthropology" was selected to be featured in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story, edited by Richard Ford.
Personal life
Lee currently lives in Torino, Italy with her husband and two children.
Selected works
- Russian Journal, 1981 (nominated for a National Book Award)[3]
- Sarah Phillips (novel), 1984
- Interesting Women: Stories, 2002
- Lost Hearts in Italy: A Novel, 2006
- "Anthropology" (short story), 2002
References
- ↑ The Curiosity of Sisters
- ↑ Margaret Busby (ed.), "Andrea Lee", Daughters of Africa, Jonathan Cape, 1992, p. 851.
- ↑ Milena Vercellino, "Andrea Lee". Interview in The American Magazine, November 11, 2006.
External links
- Biography of Lee in Boldtype, a Random House Internet publication
- Works by or about Andrea Lee in libraries (WorldCat catalog)