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Lisa See is an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction.
* She was born in Paris, France, in 1955 to a Chinese-American father and a German-American mother.
* She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a degree in English.
* She worked as a West Coast correspondent for Publishers Weekly from 1983 to 1996.
* Her first book, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, was published in 1995.
* She has since published over 20 books, including novels, non-fiction, and children's books.
* Her books have been translated into over 30 languages and have sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
* She is a recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the Historymaker's Award from the Chinese American Museum.
* She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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