Hermione Lee is a highly respected British author, known for her work in nonfiction and biography. She was born and raised in London and received her education at Oxford. Lee's academic career began in the United States, where she worked as a lecturer at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and at Liverpool University. She later taught at the University of York, where she held various positions including Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of English Literature. Lee's distinguished career has also included positions at the University of Oxford, where she served as the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and Fellow of New College, and as President of Wolfson College.
In addition to her work as an author and educator, Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and St Cross Colleges, Oxford. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Liverpool and York Universities and was made a Commander of the British Empire for Services to Literature in 2003.
In contrast, Hermione Lee is an eighteen-year-old author and cover designer who was born and raised in Taiwan. She is an award-winning and #1 Amazon bestselling author, with her first book, "In the Name of the Otherworld," being released by World Castle Publishing when she was sixteen. She has since written twenty-two novels, with her works earning numerous awards and accolades. These include the gold medal in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the bronze medal in the FAPA President’s Book Awards, and the Literary Titan Gold Book Award.
Lee is a prolific writer, known for her ability to span multiple genres including fantasy, paranormal, horror, thriller, young adult, middle-grade, mystery, literary, and romance. She is a proud non-conformist and considers herself an eclectic eccentric and an eccentric eclectic. Lee writes anytime and anywhere, with her words serving as portals to whimsical worlds of magic. She aspires to one day win the Nobel Prize for Literature and become a wealthy recluse in her old age.