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Jun 4, 2000 · Eddy See married a white woman, Stella Copeland. Their son and Lisa’s father, Richard, was thus one-quarter Chinese. Lisa’s mother, writer Carolyn See, is white.
See's father was Richard See, an American student who later became an anthropologist. See's parents were later divorced, and her mother married Tom Sturak. See has a half-sister, Clara Sturak.
Aug 17, 1995 · "Dreaming" is by Carolyn See, an award-winning book reviewer and novelist, and she is telling the story of her marriage to Richard See. "On Gold Mountain" is by Lisa See, their daughter,...
Mar 20, 2017 · But the 1995 publication of "On Gold Mountain," an acclaimed history of Chinese migration to California that draws largely from her family's colorful experiences, turned the former West Coast...
Mar 25, 2024 · Her fascinating 1995 debut, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, tells the true story of her paternal great-grandfather, Fong See, a Chinese immigrant, and his white wife, Ticie, née Pruett, and generations of their descendants, including her father, Richard See, who married Lisa’s mother, the notable ...
She lived with her mother but spent a lot of time with her father’s family in Chinatown. Her first book, On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book.
After a few years working as a journalist, Lisa See was approached about including her family in a book about Chinese American families—an opportunity that her great aunt had refused, much like...
