Lee Goodman spent his early years outside of Boston and on Cape Cod. When he was in his teens his family moved to rural Vermont. Lee majored biology at the University of Vermont then moved to Alaska where he spent the next ten years mushing sled dogs, commercial fishing, and living an off-the-grid lifestyle. Eventually he want to law school then returned to Alaska and dabbled in different areas of law before deciding he wasn’t really cut out for any off them. So now he’s off-the-grid again, living outside of Anchorage. He writes for most of the year, but commercial fishes for salmon in the summer. He has two children.

Lee says he never planned to write legal mystery. He was aiming for literary fiction and social/environmental commentary. But then he started writing "Indefensible" just for fun, and there was no turning back.