{"id":12,"date":"2007-06-14T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2010-09-22T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:43:52","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/about\/author\/","title":{"rendered":"Author: Jennifer 8. Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jennifer 8. Lee was a reporter at The New York Times for nine years. She harbors a deep obsession for Chinese food, the product of which is The Fortune Cookie Chronicles (Twelve, 2008), which explores how Chinese food is all-American.<\/p>\n

At the Times, she wrote about poverty, the environment, crime, politics, and technology. She has been called, by NPR, a “conceptual scoop artist<\/a>.” One of her better known articles introduced the concept of “man dates”<\/a>. She also picked up on the fastest growing baby name in the history of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She was born and raised in New York City, attending Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School<\/a> for a total of 14 years. She majored in applied math and economics at Harvard,<\/a> where she also angsted a lot about The Harvard Crimson<\/a>, a fabulous start-up magazine called Diversity & Distinction,<\/a> and the Asian American Association.<\/a> After college, she fled to China and spent a year at Beijing University<\/a> studying international relations.<\/p>\n

Her parents are from the tiny island off the coast of China variously called Quemoy, Kinmen, or Jinmen.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>She has a younger sister named Frances (foreign exchange programmer) and a younger brother named Kenneth (actuary). If you string their first initials together, it spells JFK, which their parents tease is the airport<\/a> they landed at when they first came to the United States. (though currently, JFK is her least favorite of the NYC airports).<\/p>\n

She has a purple stuffed hippo named Hubba Bubba who travels the world with her. She used to know how to solve a Rubiks Cube, though is a bit rusty now. And she has always harbored fantasies of being a fortune cookie message scribe. She lives in Harlem (about four blocks away from her parents). She makes great turkey fried dumplings (recipe from mom).<\/p>\n

She is a former member of the Poynter Institute National Advisory Board, a board member of the Asian American Writers Workshop, and has been featured in the Esquire Women We Love issue.<\/p>\n

(The portrait above was taken by Nina Subin,<\/a> who does wonderful author photos)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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