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About Don Lee

Don Lee (born 1959) is an American novelist, fiction writer, literary journal editor, and creative writing professor.

The son of a State Department officer, Lee—a third-generation Korean American—spent his childhood in Tokyo (where he attended ASIJ, or the American School in Japan) and Seoul. He received his B.A. in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Emerson College.

After graduating with his M.F.A. degree, Lee taught fiction writing workshops at Emerson College for four years as an adjunct instructor, then began working full-time at the literary journal Ploughshares. He has also served as the primary editor of the literary journal Ploughshares for 17 years from 1988 to 2007. He was also an occasional writer-in-residence in Emerson's M.F.A. program and a visiting writer at other colleges and universities.

Don Lee writes about Fiction, California, fiction, California, Boston (mass.), fiction, Boston (Mass.), and Belletristische Darstellung. Their best-known work is Boston noir.

On FindMyTBR we track 3 books by Don Lee, 3 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Lonesome Lies Before Us : A Novel, The Collective, and The Partition. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.