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Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American novelist, essayist and literary scholar. He was born in 1971 in Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam (now Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam), and came to the United States as a refugee in 1975, when his family fled after the fall of Saigon. They were resettled first at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and later in San Jose, California, where he became a naturalized US citizen. He is University Professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a Professor of English, Amer...