Lee Albert Siegel (born July 22, 1945) is a novelist and professor emeritus of religion at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
In 2003, Siegel was featured in the television documentary series Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour.
He was recently featured as a panelist at the 2018 Hawaii Book & Music Fair and the 2019 Asia Society Gala.
"[3] Of Love in a Dead Language, a New York Times reviewer wrote that "while the novel's historical texts, both actual and imagined, give pleasure, they also tell an incisive history of Orientalism, Europeans' construction of Indian sexuality, the elision of exotic and erotic.
From 1978 until the late 1990s, Siegel published scholarly studies of Indian love poetry, comedy, horror, and magic.