Andrea Lee Biography
Andrea Lee is an American writer of memoirs, short stories, and novels, born in 1953. Before beginning her own freelance career, Lee was a staff writer at The New Yorker for a number of years.
Andrea Lee Age
Lee was born in 1953 in the United States of America, he is 70 years old as of 2023.
Andrea Lee Education
She earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in English from Harvard University’s Radcliffe College.
Andrea Lee Family- Parents
In 1953, Lee was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of three children in a middle-class household. Her mother taught elementary school, while her father served as a Baptist minister. Although Lee was raised in an African American home, she soon found herself surrounded by a large number of white people, which affected the way she saw herself and ultimately informed her art.
Andrea Lee Husband
Since 1992, Lee, her Italian husband, and their two kids have resided in Turin, Italy.
Andrea Lee Career
Lee returned to the United States and worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker for a number of years before going out on her own as a freelance writer. She presently works as The New Yorker’s contract writer. Additionally, she has appeared in the Oxford American, Gourmet, Allure, W, and House & Garden. The New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Time, The Oxford American, The New York Times Magazine, and the Elements of Literature textbook. Several of her short tales have appeared in anthologies, such as “Anthropology” in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007, edited by Richard Ford), “Brothers and Sisters Around the World” in The Best American Short tales 2001, and “Winter Barley” in The Best American Short Stories 1993.
Interesting Women: Stories, her collection of short stories published in 2001, highlighted African-American women living overseas, particularly in Italy. She has investigated the perspectives of well-educated, affluent young women navigating European societies and racial and class issues. Americans living in Europe were also a theme in her 2006 book Lost Hearts in Italy: A Novel. Lee was interviewed and stated that, “What I like to investigate when I write is what people dream about What fascinates me is fantasy, the dream of being away, the state of being foreign, of being apart.”Through her work, Andrea Lee attempts to address difficult issues of race, gender, class, and identity in the contemporary world by fusing fantasy and adventure.
Andrea Lee Net Worth
Lee has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.
