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Biography [ edit ]
Andrew Lam was born Lâm Quang Dũng in 1964 in South Vietnam .[1] Lâm Quang Thi of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam . He attended Lycée Yersin in Đà Lạt .[2]
Lam left Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975. He attended the University of California, Berkeley , where he majored in biochemistry. He soon abandoned plans for medical school and entered a creative writing program at San Francisco State University . While still in school he began writing for Pacific News Service and in 1993 won the Outstanding Young Journalist Award from the Society of Professional Journalists .[3]
A PBS documentary produced by WETA in 2004, My Journey Home , told 3 stories of Americans returning to their ancestral homelands, including of Lam's return to Vietnam.[4]
He is currently the web editor of New America Media.[5] Perfume Dreams , about the problem of identity as a Vietnamese living in the U.S.[6] PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2006 for Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora. He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered . His second book, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres is a meditation on east–west relations, and how Asian immigration changed the West. It was named Top Ten Indies by Shelf Unbound Magazine in 2010.
Birds of Paradise Lost , his third book, is a collection of short stories about Vietnamese newcomers struggling to remake their lives in the San Francisco Bay after a long, painful exodus from Vietnam.[7]
Lam blogs regularly on Huffington Post .[8]
He was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University 2001–2002.
Though reticent about speaking about his sexuality, in 2009 Lam gave an interview for a collection of portraits of homosexual Americans.[9]
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"Show and Tell"
"Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal."
^ Philip Gambone , Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), 194-5
^ Gambone, 197
^ PBS: "Andrew Lam" , accessed June 23, 2010; My Journey Home
^ "New America Media" . Archived from the original on 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2013-12-04 .
^ Heyday Books: "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine , accessed June 23, 2010
^ "Birds of Paradise Lost | Red Hen Press" . Redhen.org. Retrieved 2013-12-04 .
^ "Andrew Lam" . Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2013-12-04 .
^ Gambone, 194-9
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