Stacey Lee

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Stacy Lee writes books.^[1] She is a fourth generation Chinese American.^[2] She has written ten books.^[3] She has won 20 awards.^[3] She is a New York Times Bestselling author.^[2] She writes for young adults.^[1] She writes stories about the past.^[2] Many of her books talk about Chinese people and racism.^[2]

Before Lee was a writer, she worked in law.^[1] Law has affected her writing.^[1] She had been writing all her life.^[1] One day, she decided to try to write a book.^[1] She did.^[1] She started writing because she loved it.^[1] She decided to try to make her money doing something she loved.^[1]

Lee was born in the USA.^[4] She is a fourth generation Chinese American.^[4] She started writing when she was very young.^[1] She came up with stories in her head around the ages of six to eight.^[1] She wrote stories about the ideas.^[1] When she was 13 or 14, she wrote a book.^[1] It was based on fairy tales.^[1]

Lee has won 20 awards.^[3] Six were for the Downstairs Girl.^[3] She is a New York Times Bestselling author.^[2]

• Best Fiction for Young Adults ^[3]
• Junior Library Guild Selections ^[3]
• Notable Books for Global Society^[3]
• Notable Social Studies Trade Books For Young People^[3]
• Publishers Weekly^[3]
• SLJ Best Books of The Year^[3]
• Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature^[3]
• CCBC Choices^[3]
• Golden Kite Awards^[3]
• Teacher Favorites Award^[3]
• Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books^[3]
• Middle-Grade Favorites Award^[3]

Lee has written 10 books.^[3] One of the books she wrote with someone else.^[3] Her books are Historical Fiction.^[2] To write these, she has to study the times she is writing about.^[2] It takes her about two to three years to print a book.^[4]

• The Downstairs Girl^[3]
• Under a Painted Sky^[3]
• Outrun the Moon^[3]
• Luck of the Titanic^[3]
• Kill Her Twice^[3]
• Heiress of Nowhere^[3]e
• Winston Chu vs. The Wingmeisters^[3]
• The Secret of a Heart Note^[3]
• Winston Chu vs. The Whimsies^[3]
• Sinister^[3]

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Grochowski |, Sara. "Q & A with Stacey Lee". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 litcelebrasian (2021-06-18). "Interview with Stacey Lee – author of Luck of the Titanic". Lit CelebrAsian. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 "TeachingBooks | Stacey Lee". library.teachingbooks.net. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
4. 1 2 3 Brewer, Robert Lee (2026-03-17). "Stacey Lee: The Story Announced Itself". Writer's Digest. Retrieved 2026-04-29.