This is only his third published book -- his second novel -- and he believes he can only get better.

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His second novel, "A Thousand Splendid Suns, " about two Afghan women and their struggles to survive marital abuse, drought and poverty, was a No. 1 best seller in 2007.

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Before his death, he burned what he had written of the second volume of his novel.

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In February Lee won his second best director Oscar for his 3D film Life of Pi, based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger.

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In his new, New York Times best-selling novel entitled One Second After, historian and author Bill Forstchen describes the devastating effect such a strike could have on America.

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Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.

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After divorcing his second wife, the romance writer Danielle Steel, in 1999, he began writing himself, and embarked on a novel about the amorous exploits of a rich financier much like him.

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