Lisa See is the author of the lyrical Sun Flower and the Secret Fan, a national bestselling novel about "nu shu", the secret writing developed and used by women in a small county in China for over. a thousand years that has become a national bestseller.

Her previous book On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, was a national best seller and a New York Times Notable Book of 1995. The book traces the journey of Lisa's great-grandfather, Fong See, who overcomes obstacles at every step to become the 100-year-old godfather of Los Angeles's Chinatown and the patriarch of a sprawling family. See delves into forgotten history with her new novel Peony of Love, which is ultimately about the bonds of female frienship, the power of words, and the desire that all women have to be heard.

Paramount pictures bought the film right to her riveting story of a murder investigation in today's China from her first novel, Flower Net. It was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Bokk of 1997, a Los Angeles Times Best Books for 1997, and was rated the top thriller of the year by Amazon.com. Flower Net was also nominated for an Edgar award for best first novel.

See is also the author of Interior, a story about the sometimes blind love between a mother and daughter, the clash of global financial empires, and how the past can sometimes come back to haunt us. Dragon Bones is set against the building of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi River. The novel combines ancient myth and contemporary fears of religious fanaticism and terrorism to tell a story of love, betrayal, history, ecology, and gory murders. Author Ha Jin has said of the book, "Mixing history, myths, and current events, Dragon Bones is an extraordinarily rich novel.It reveals the emotional and economical entanglement of China with the West, and tells a story of lust, greed, fear, and desperation."

In addition to writing books, See was the Publishers Weekly west coast correspondent for thirteen years. As a freelance journalist, her articles have appeared in Vogue, Self, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Washington Post Book Review, and TV Guide.

See wrote the libretto for the Los Angeles Opera based on On Golden Mountain. Lisa serves as a guest curator for an exhibit on the Chinese American experience for the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. She has also helped to develope and curate the Family Discover Gallery at the Autry Museum, an interactive space for children and their families that focuese on Lisa's bi-racial, bi-cultural family as seen through the eyes of her father as a seven-year-old boy living in the 1930's Los Angeles.

See has designed a walking tour of Los Angeles's Chinatown and wrote a companion guidebook to celebrate the opening of the MTA's Chinatown metro station. Lisa curated the inaugural exhibition "A Retrospective of Artist Tyrus Wong" for the grand openning of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles in 2003. She has served as the Los Angeles Commissioner on the El Pueblo se Los Angeles Monument Authority. See has been honored as National Woman of the Year in 2001 by the Organiziation of Chinese American Women, and a recipient of the Chinese American Museum's History Maker's Award in 2003.

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