Nate Lee (author)

Nate Lee is an American author^[1] and former senior editor at Chicago's Newcity weekly magazine^[2][3] who advocated passionately for live theater.^[4][5] At Newcity, Lee wrote features, a weekly column called Urbanitie, theatre and film reviews as well as stories on architecture and historic preservation, and at one point wrote a book which turned into a musical comedy revue entitled Speak of the Twenties.^[6] Working with publishers Brian and Jan Hieggelke, he attracted top writers to write for Newcity including top theater critics who became prominent at other publications later, including Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune and Rohan Preston of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.^[2] He wrote numerous books published by Abingdon Press^[1] and reviews for websites.^[7] Lee attended Phillips Academy in Andover and graduated in the school's first co–educational class in 1974.{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_Academy}