
"There were many years where you're just working, working, working and nothing happens," Lee says. But while Lee might not have had to wait for her prince to come, she did have to wait for something arguably more precious for an aspiring fiction writer: her plot.Īfter working her way up to book editor, she quit, afraid she'd never write her own novel while steeped in other people's, and got an MFA under the tutelage of Chang-Rae Lee at Hunter College. She met her husband, Joe Bae, on their first day at Harvard they sensibly recognized they were soul mates and got married soon after college. Lee is happily married to a successful financier (these still exist.).


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