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.
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Juan Felipe HerreraAlso won PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
Don LeeAlso won Asian American Literary Awards
Amy WaldmanAlso won Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
Erin Entrada KellyAlso won Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
A. D. WinansAlso won PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
Randa JarrarAlso won PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary AwardAbout this person
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.
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