Helen Elaine Lee

Helen Elaine Lee (born 1959) is the Director of the Program in Women's & Gender Studies and Professor of Fiction Writing in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Biography Helen Elaine Lee was born in Detroit, Michigan to George and Dorothy Lee. George was an attorney and Dorothy was a college professor of comparative literature.

Lee earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard in 1985. She practiced law in Washington, D.C. until she could sustain herself as a writer.

Published works Lee, H. E. (1994). The serpent's gift. Atheneum ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International. Lee, H. E. (1999). Water marked: a novel. Scribner : Simon & Schuster [distributor]. Lee, H. E. (2023). Pomegranate: a novel (First Atria Books hardcover edition). Atria Books.