HELIE LEE Helie Lee is the author of the United States bestseller Still Life With Rice (Scribner 1996), and In The Absence of Sun (Harmony Books 2002), memoirs in which she chronicles her family's experience in war-torn Korea from the 1930s to 1997. Her second book , In The Absence of Sun specifically details her Korean-American family's risky attempt to rescue her uncle from North Korea. sdaff.org