Kara Lee is a professional fine artist and children's book illustrator. She currently concentrates her work in the area of illustrating and writing children's picture books and has illustrated: "Caesar: on Deaf Ears," 1997; "Norman to the Rescue," 2000; and "Chelsea and the New Puppy," scheduled for release in the Fall of 2001.

An accomplished professional portrait painter, Ms. Lee's portraits are in many collections in both the United States and Europe. Her most notable painting of President George Bush, Generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf was personally selected by the President of The United States to hang in the Bush Presidential Library. She has taught art to both children and adults for over seventeen years and is a faculty member of the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, NJ.