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Kien Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Kiên; born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, 1967) is an author who was born to a Vietnamese mother, a banker from a once wealthy family, and an American civil engineer. His mother's family, who had lost their wealth when the Americans left Vietnam, lived among neighbors who treated them as pariahs because of their background connected to the Americans, which the communist government had seen as evil capitalists. Nguyen, a child of mixed race, was especially ostracized from the community. He left Vietnam in 1985 through the United Nations "Orderly Departure Program." After spending time at a refugee camp in the Philippines, he arrived in the United States and became a dentist. He practiced dentistry in New York, NY; New York University College of Dentistry, New York, clinical instructor in general dentistry and management science.[1] He lives in California.
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