![]() ![]() ![]() She had a short story published in The Atlantic online and another in the small journal Image, but mostly she toiled haunted by the fear that, while she had the characters, a novel-sustaining plot eluded her.īut during her first pregnancy, Lee had one of those mythic-maternity miracles, in which what she couldn't do with all the time in the world suddenly became doable. "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.). Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]()
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