Howard Lee is the writer and illustrator of the best selling children book "Jamshid and the Lost Mountain of Light". Howard visited Persepolis in Persia with his family in 1998. It was the sight of his young son Daniel, gazing through the very windows that his historical namesake had gazed through some 2500 years ago, that inspired this book. Howard spent his early childhood in Kenya before moving to his native Britain, where he met his Persian-born wife, Mojgan.

Currently living in New Jersey, USA, he tries to balance multiple careers as artist, author, geologist, IT consultant, and parent to his two sons Daniel and Samuel.