and Jack Soo. Lee was interviewed on the 2006 DVD release of the movie. On October 2, 2001, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles premiered David Henry Hwang's adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song to glowing reviews, in the first major theatrical production that had an all-Asian cast of actors and voices. Its initial run was extended, and after several months, the production moved to Broadway, where the reviews were less than stellar. Lee had worked with Hwang on the rewriting of the musical. Personal life Lee married Joyce Lackey, an American writer, in 1963. They had two children, Angela and Jay. Joyce died in 1997. In his later life Lee lived in Alhambra, California. On November 8, 2018, he died of kidney failure in Los Angeles, at the age of 102. Works 10,000 Apologies (2006) Novels The Flower Drum Song (1957) Lover's Point (1958) The Sawbwa and His Secretary (1959) Madame Goldenflower (1960), Farrar Straus & Cudahy Cripple Mah and the New Order (1961) The Virgin Market (1964) The Land of the Golden Mountain (1967) The Days of the Tong Wars (1974) China Saga (1987), Grove Press, The Second Son of Heaven (1990), William Morrow, Gate of Rage: A Novel of One Family Trapped by the Events at Tiananmen Square (1991), William Morrow, Short stories Many of Lee's short stories were published by the New Yorker magazine after the success of his first novel: "A Man of Habit" "Sawbwa Fang And The Communist" "Sawbwa's Domestic Quarrel" "Sawbwa Fang's Sense of Justice" "Sawbwa Fang, Dr. Streppone, And The Leeches" Plays Mama From China (2004) Sources The Chronology of American Literature (2004), edited by Daniel S. Burt. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. References External links 1915 births 2018 deaths American centenarians American dramatists and playwrights of Chinese descent American journalists of Chinese descent American people of Chinese descent American writers of Chinese descent Chinese centenarians Journalists from California Men centenarians National Southwestern Associated University alumni People from Xiangtan People with acquired American citizenship Republic of China (1912–1949) emigrants to the United States Writers from Hunan Yale School of Drama alumni