Andrea Lee

For the mixed martial artist, see Andrea Lee (fighter).

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

References

  1. The Curiosity of Sisters
  2. Margaret Busby (ed.), "Andrea Lee", Daughters of Africa, Jonathan Cape, 1992, p. 851.
  3. Milena Vercellino, "Andrea Lee". Interview in The American Magazine, November 11, 2006.

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