Monique Truong

1968 - Present

Born in Ho Chi Minh City (then Saigon), Monique Truong came to the US as a child in 1975, and graduated from high school in Houston Texas.  She went to Yale and the to Columbia Law School (J.D. 1995).  She is best known for the novels The Book of Salt (2003) and Bitter in the Mouth (2010).