In 1993, Finding My Voice also earned the Young People's Literature Award from the Friends of American Writers, and was also placed on the 1994 Young Adults' Choices list by the International Reading Association. For the novel, Lee won a 'Best Book for Reluctant Readers' award from the American Library Association in 1992. In late 2020 and early 2021, Finding My Voice was reissued by Soho Teen. Lee, Lee has also written several young adult novels: Finding My Voice (1992), If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun (1993), Saying Goodbye (1994), Necessary Roughness (1996), and F is for Fabuloso (1999).įinding My Voice is generally considered to be the 'first teen novel released by a major publisher with a contemporary Asian American protagonist by an Asian American author' and tells the story of high school senior Ellen Sung as she deals with racism as belonging to the only Korean American (or family of color for that matter) in town. In 1986, Lee graduated with an Bachelor of Arts or AB degree from Brown University. Her father was a physician, and both of her parents fled North Korea to the South, eventually moving to Minnesota when her mother secured a United States visa. Lee and her family grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, a small and remote mining town. This organisation was formed in 1991 to support New York City writers of color. She is a cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW). Marie Myung-Ok Lee is a Korean-American author, novelist and essayist.

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