Marie Lee’s new book The Evening Hero recently got some buzz on Good Morning America. Last week, Good Morning America selected The Evening Hero as a buzz pick for the Good Morning America book club. Good Morning America flashed The Evening Hero on its Times Square jumbotron for tourists and readers worldwide as they walked […]
Marie Lee’s latest novel, The Evening Hero continues to pick up accolades from various publications since it’s debut a few short weeks ago. Latest on the list is the mention by the magazine, Vanity Fair, which lists Lee’s book, The Evening Hero as one of its reading recommendations for the month of June. Vanity Fair […]
Marie Lee has published more than 6 novels and this latest one shows new facets of the author’s writing. Hailed by Oprah’s Book Club, with an excerpt on the site, Marie’s novel, The Evening Hero, puts the reader directly into the experiences of Dr. Yunman Kwak, A Korean immigrant doctor who thought he was living […]
The Evening Hero is being met with some glowing reviews. The book is about a Korean immigrant Dr. Yungman Kwak and his disillusionment with the American Dream. The Star-Tribune calls the Evening Hero a ‘Sweeping Novel’ and states that Lee follows her protagonist with ‘comic flair.’ Dr. Yungman Kwak is at one time at the […]
Asian-American female author Marie Lee recently attended the Association for Asian American Studies Conference. While at the conference, Marie observed that many of the academic professionals attending the conference were not fellow creative writers. While many of the Asian American professionals there were professors in Cultural Studies or English, they were not creative writers. With […]
The Evening Hero is preparing for its official launch in the literary world with early favorable reviews and recognition. Angie Kim, the best-selling author of the book Miracle creek, writes about The Evening Hero, saying that it is “Filled with sharp insights into immigrant life.” Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s new upcoming novel, The Evening Hero, follows […]
The Evening Hero, which releases May 24th, has made it onto Oprah’s list at number 11 as one of the top books to welcome the spring reading season.
Tell us about your work.I teach the Advanced Fiction Workshop in the undergraduate writing program. I am also in the final stages of preparing my novel, The Evening Hero, for publication by Simon & Schuster in 2022. I direct the Asian American Diasporic Writers series at The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER). What are you looking […]
A woman has told how she got her young son a cannabis license despite his doctor’s reluctance, making him the youngest in the US to have one. Read the full article here When Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s son Jason was three years old, he was diagnosed with severe autism. The novelist tried every conventional treatment to […]
Read the full article on THE MILLIONS At about the time, as a child, I learned my parents could die at any minute (and so could I, but that was beside the point), I became obsessed with time, especially since I learned it passes. And that there were ways to spend it, save it, hoard […]