The plot of The Piano Teacher revolves around two intertwining love stories in 1940’s and 50’s Hong Kong. The Piano Teacher was bought two months before the birth of her twins. Five years after her first notes on the story, and pregnant with twins, Lee decided to finish the novel before she missed the opportunity. She took a break from writing to be a mother, moved back to Hong Kong, and had a second child.
Pregnant and living at the famed artists’ colony Yaddo, she began to formulate the basic storyline.
Lee decided to return to writing fiction and enrolled in an MFA program at Hunter College, mostly writing short stories. Soon after, she worked in the features department, and later at Mirabella. Despite her dream, her first job out of college was not writing but rather as an assistant to the Elle beauty editor. Janice Lee had planned to write a novel since elementary school.
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