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- Birth nameChin Yang Lee
- Chin Y. Lee graduated from National Southwest Associated University, Kunming, China, in 1940 with Bachelor of Arts degree. He entered the United States in 1943, attended Yale University, and by 1947 Lee earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Lee's first novel, "The Flower Drum Song: A Novel of San Francisco's Grant Avenue," was published in 1957. The novel formed the basis of Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and the subsequent film.- IMDb Mini Biography By: M. Donovan
- SpouseJoyce Lackey(1963 - 1997) (her death, 2 children)
- Lee lives in Alhambra, California.
- He wrote several books of historical fiction, but his best-known work was his 1957 debut novel, "The Flower Drum Song". He wrote it while renting a room above a Filipino nightclub in San Francisco's Chinatown. He was also an editor and columnist for one of the city's Chinese-language newspapers.
- He was the youngest of 11 children of a rice farmer.
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