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Andrea Lee
novelist, former staff writer, New Yorker
Andrea Lee was born in Philadelphia and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University. She is a former staff writer for *the New Yorke*r, and her fiction and nonfiction writing has also appeared in *The New York Times Magazine* and *The New York Times Book Review*. She is the author of *Russian Journal*, the novel Sarah Phillips, and the short story collection "Interesting Women." She lives with her husband and two children in Turin, Italy.