Lisa See

Lisa See

• Birth:    February 15, 1955
  
• Death:    
• Nationality:   American of Chinese-American descent. Born in Paris France, lived in Los Angeles
  
• Education: Loyola Marymount University (BA)
  
• Author URL: https://www.lisasee.com/
• Books Written
• On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese American Family. St. Martins Press, 1995. ISBN 9781101910085
• Flower Net. HarperCollins, 1997.
• The Interior. HarperCollins, 1999
• Dragon Bones. Random House, Inc., 2003. ISBN 9781588362704
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Random House, Inc., 2005. ISBN 9781408821626
• Peony in Love. Random House, Inc., 2007. ISBN 9781408811795
• Shanghai Girls. Random House, Inc., 2009. ISBN 9781408811801
• Chinatown (guidebook), Angels Walk LA, 2003.
• Dreams of Joy. Random House, Inc., 2011. ISBN 9781408826119
• China Dolls. Random House, Inc., 2014.
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. Scribner, 2017.
• The Island of Sea Women. Scribner, 2019. ISBN 9781501154850
• Biography

From Lisa See's web site: Ms. See was born in Paris but grew up in Los Angeles. She lived with her mother but spent a lot of time with her father’s family in Chinatown. Her first book, On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family(1995), was a national bestseller and a New York TimesNotable Book. The book traces the journey of Lisa’s great-grandfather, Fong See, who overcame obstacles at every step to become the 100-year-old godfather of Los Angeles’s Chinatown and the patriarch of a sprawling family.