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Vietnamese writer who is known especially for her 2003 work, The Book of Salt. She published a second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, in 2010.She won the 2004 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for The Book of Salt.She and Robert Stern both graduated from Yale University.
BEFORE FAMEShe graduated from Yale University in 1990 with a degree in English.
PERSONAL LIFEShe was born in Saigon, Vietnam. When she was six years old, she left Vietnam as a war refugee and settled in Houston, Texas. She later lived in New York City.
The meaning of the name Truong: School, Field FUN FACTSNovelist Monique Truong were born on Monday, in a leap year, birthstone is Emerald, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Monkey, it is 129 days until Monique Truong next birthday.
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