# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thanhha-lai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:02:56.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thanhha-lai"
name: "Thanhha Lai"
slug: "thanhha-lai"
description: "Thanhha Lai is a Vietnamese-American writer of children's literature. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature\nand a Newbery Honor for her debut novel, Inside Out & Back Again, which was published by HarperCollins."
tagline: "American children's writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.76
  momentum:             16.05747126436782
  historical:           6.150649333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thanhha_Lai"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "ثانا لاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanhha_Lai"
    title: "Thanhha Lai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanhha_Lai"
    title: "Thanhha Lai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanhha_Lai"
    title: "Thanhha Lai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E1%BA%A1i_Thanh_H%C3%A0"
    title: "Lại Thanh Hà"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thanhha_Lai"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7710392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump