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MIT Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
FAX: 617-253-6910
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H ELEN
ELAINE LEE
Associate Professor.
Helen Elaine Lee was born and raised in Detroit,
Michigan. She was educated at Harvard College and Harvard
Law School, from which she graduated in 1985. Her short
stories have appeared in Callaloo, SAGE and several
anthologies, including Children of the Night: The Best
Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present,
edited by Gloria Naylor, and Ancestral House: The Black
Story in the Americas and Europe, edited by Charles
Rowell. Her first novel, The Serpent's Gift, was
published by Atheneum Publishers in 1994 and Scribner
Paperback Fiction in 1995 and her second novel, Water
Marked, was published by Scribner in 1999. She has
recently completed the manuscript of her third novel,
Life Without about the lives of a group of people who
are incarcerated in two neighboring American prisons. She
has published excerpts from this novel in Callaloo and
Hanging Loose. She serves on the Board of PEN New England
and is a member of its Freedom To Write Committee.
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