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Wendy Lee is the author of the novels The Art of Confidence (Kensington), Across a Green Ocean (Kensington), and Happy Family (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic). Happy Family was named one of the top ten debut novels of 2008 by Booklist and awarded an honorable mention from the Association of Asian American Studies.

A graduate of Stanford University and New York University’s Creative Writing Program, Lee has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo. She spent more than ten years in the publishing industry as an editor at HarperCollins Publishers and Lantern Books in Brooklyn, where she co-edited the anthology Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of Meat. She has also worked ...more

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Wendy Lee I don't know if I get writer's block exactly, but I do have that very familiar writer's condition where you have characters, plot points, and lines of…moreI don't know if I get writer's block exactly, but I do have that very familiar writer's condition where you have characters, plot points, and lines of dialogue in your head that you find impossible to put down on paper. I haven't really found a way to deal with that yet other than to accept that nothing sounds as good in real life as when you imagined it. (less)

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Wendy Lee I think the best thing about being a writer is receiving an email or being told by someone who's a complete stranger that your book resonated with the…moreI think the best thing about being a writer is receiving an email or being told by someone who's a complete stranger that your book resonated with them. It's a special connection with another person that otherwise wouldn't have been formed, and it's formed completely from words.(less)

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Average rating: 3.48 · 817 ratings · 137 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Across a Green Ocean 3.42 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Family: A Novel 3.14 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat by Wendy Lee (Goodreads Author), Carol J. Adams (Editor), Kara Davis (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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