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Rebecca Lee (field Hockey)
Rebecca Lee may refer to: * Rebecca Lee (explorer) (born 1944), explorer from Hong Kong * Rebecca Lee (writer) Rebecca Lee (born May 5, 1967) is an American novelist and professor. She is the author of the novella ''The City Is a Rising Tide'' (2006) and the short story collection ''Bobcat and Other Stories'' (2013), which won the Believer Book Award. Lee ... (born 1967), American novelist and professor * Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831–1895), African-American physician * Beki Smith (Rebecca Smith née Lee, born 1986), Australian race walker {{hndis, Lee, Rebecca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Lee (explorer)
Rebecca Lee Lok Sze, MH ( Traditional Chinese: 李樂詩, born 1944 in Canton) is an explorer from Hong Kong. She is the first Hong Kong person and the first woman to have visited the North Pole, the South Pole, and Mount Everest. She has visited the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon (the deepest canyon in China) and the Taklamakan (the hottest desert in China). Life and work Dr Lee has worked as a professional graphic designer, painter, photographer, and writer. In 1985 she joined the Chinese National Antarctic Expedition and first set foot on Antarctica. Over the following 30 years Dr Lee has made significant contributions toward polar exploration and educating people about environmental impacts. In 1997 she founded the Polar Museum Foundation. Dr Lee has donated a collection of artifacts from her polar expeditions to the Museum of Climate Change at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2012 she collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra on a performance of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Lee (writer)
Rebecca Lee (born May 5, 1967) is an American novelist and professor. She is the author of the novella ''The City Is a Rising Tide'' (2006) and the short story collection ''Bobcat and Other Stories'' (2013), which won the Believer Book Award. Lee earned a MFA at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1992. She is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She has been awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2012, the National Magazine Award for her short story "Fialta" in 2001, the Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University 2001-2002l and in 1997, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award was ... and the Michener Fellowship at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 199 Works *''Bobcat and Other Stories'' (2013) *''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, born Rebecca Davis, (February 8, 1831March 9, 1895), was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. Crumpler was one of the first female physician authors in the nineteenth century. In 1883, she published ''A Book of Medical Discourses''. The book has two parts that cover the prevention and cure of infantile bowel complaints, and the life and growth of human beings. Dedicated to nurses and mothers, it focuses on maternal and pediatric medical care and was among the first publications written by an African American about medicine. Crumpler graduated from medical college at a time when very few African Americans were allowed to attend medical college or publish books. Crumpler first practiced medicine in Boston, primarily serving poor women and children. After the American Civil War ended in 1865, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
