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 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 […]
I’m excited to share the new cover look for my best-selling young adult reader classic, Finding My Voice. I wrote this book because as an Asian American author, growing up there weren’t books that I could identify with that had a Korean girl talking about her experiences. You can read about the cover reveal by […]
As a Asian-American writer in residence at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, I recently collaborated with Doug Chan, president of the Chinese Historical Society of America to write about multiple 19th-century outbreaks that caused San Francisco’s quarantine in Chinatown. While writing the article below, I realized that many of the […]
We live in an unclear world. The murkiest of times. It makes us long for the known. For clarity. But as we’re learning all over again, reality isn’t like that. Consider my mother: She was 14 and living in North Korea before she escaped in 1945. So when I was invited as a faculty advisor […]