Monique Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the United States at age six. She graduated from Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law, specializing in intellectual property.
Truong co-edited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose (1998), and her essay "Welcome to America" was featured on National Public Radio. She was awarded a prestigious Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in 2001. Her first novel, The Book of Salt (2003), was a national bestseller and has been awarded the 2003
Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among other honors.
Truong lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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