Jennifer 8. Lee, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese herself, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food in her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1999 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at Beijing University. At the age of 24, she was hired by the New York Times, where she is a metro reporter and has written a variety of stories on culture, poverty, and technology. (Representation: Larry Weissman)

Books by Jennifer 8. Lee

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

by Jennifer 8. Lee - Nonfiction, Sociology

Everyone knows cookies taste good, but these cookies also have something good to say. Open this delectable book to any page and you will find out something about life. COOKIES: BITE-SIZE LIFE LESSONS is a new kind of dictionary, one that defines mysteries such as "fair" and "unfair" and what it really means to "cooperate."