Lisa See
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_SeeLisa See is a Chinese American writer and novelist. The Chinese side of her family has had a great impact on her life and work: her books include
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995) and the novels
Flower Net (1997),
The Interior (1999),
Dragon Bones (2003),
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005),
Peony in Love (2007) and
Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to the 2010
New York Times bestseller list. Both
Shanghai Girls and
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan received honorable mentions from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.
The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001 National Woman of the Year.