Amy Freeman Lee

Amy Freeman Lee (October 3, 1914 – July 20, 2004) was an American artist, writer and lecturer. She was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 1984.

Biography The daughter of Julia Freeman and Joe Novich, she was born in San Antonio and, after her mother died in 1918, was legally adopted and raised by her grandmother Emma Freeman in Seguin. She attended Saint Mary's Hall boarding school and went on to further studies at the University of Texas at Austin and Incarnate Word College. from 1973 to 1990. From 1976 to 2004, she was chairman of the board of Wilhelm Schole International.

Lee received the Maury Maverick Award from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Joseph Wood Krutch Award from the American Humane Society. In 1985, CBS produced a documentary on her life Reality is Becoming.

Personal life Lee's husband was Ernest Lee, but she was separated after three years.

Selected works Remember Pearl Harbor (1943) Ipso Facto (1976) Inkwell Echos (1985) Parnassus of World Poetry (1994)