Tosca Lee

Tosca Lee is a thriller, suspense and historical fiction author best known for the “Book of Mortals” series with Ted Dekker. The biracial author was born to Professor Sang-Moon Lee a Korean father and a Caucasian mother in Roanoke, Virginia in 1969. Her father was a fan of the opera and in fact, dreamt of performing at the opera but his dreams never materialized. Moon Lee thus decided to name his daughter Tosca as a tribute to one of the most popular performers in Puccini. Tosca has said that growing up, she was a geek-nerd and loved everything about science fiction and superheroes. In fact, she kept waiting to be swept off her feet and carried away by Luke Skywalker. As a teen, she trained as both a pianist and ballerina, though her injuries and height combined to make a career in ballet impossible. Tosca Lee went to Smith College in Massachusetts and graduated with a bachelor’s in English before attending Oxford University, from which she got her degree in International Economics. In interviews, she has asserted that writing is something that was in her blood since she was a youth as she won several contests as a teen. One year into college, she told her friends “I think I want to write a novel” and soon after wrote the manuscript for her first novel though she never got it published.