Lee co-authored the definitive book The C++ Standard Template Library with P.J. Plauger, Alexander Stepanov, and David Musser.
It is based on the original Ratfor by B. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger, with rewrites and enhancements by David Hanson and friends (U. of Arizona), Joe Sventek and Debbie Scherrer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).