Novelist and poet. She is best known for her first novel The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, a semi-autobiographical bestseller about a daughter of Chinese immigrants growing up in the 1950s.  Her second book, China Men, continued her examination of the Chinese American experience through the eyes of the men in her family.  Later works include Hawai'i One Summer, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, To Be the Poet, and The Fifth Book of Peace

Novelist. Lee trained and worked as a lawyer before writing his first novel, China Boy, a mostly autobiographical novel about a Chinese American boy growing up in a San Francisco slum. Later novels include Honor and Duty, Tiger's Tail, No Physical Evidence. His latest work is a family memoir called Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family's Fight for Freedom.

Novelist and essayist. Her first book, Eighth Moon, chronicled the life of her sister, who had been left behind in China as an infant and not reunited with the family until 16 years later. She performed in modern dances for the next eight years before writing her first fictional novel, Spring Moon  and a children's book, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson based on her memoirs. She lived in Beijing as wife of the American ambassador to China during the Deng Xiaoping era. Her conversations with residents resulted in her next book,Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic.