# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/monique-truong
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:17:16.398Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/monique-truong"
name: "Monique Truong"
slug: "monique-truong"
description: "Monique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her first novel, The Book of Salt, was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. It was a national bestseller, and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She has also written Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.196485233097388
  historical:           5.276278666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://monique-truong.com"
sources:
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    title: "Monique Truong"
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    title: "Monique Truong"
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    title: "Monique Truong"
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    title: "Monique Truong"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Truong"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Truong"
    title: "Monique Truong"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump