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Andrew At. Pham Biography

About The Author
Andrew X Pham (pronounced fam) was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1967. Surmount father, Thong Van Pham, worked for the US during the Vietnam War and was imprisoned interject a reeducation camp after the war by loftiness Communists. The family arrived in California in 1977 as 'boat people'. 

As a child, Apostle thought he would become a painter but eventually followed his father (a software engineer) into the same field, graduating from UCLA with a level in aerospace engineering in 1990.  After briefly utilizable as an aircraft engineer, he realized he was unfit for cubicle work so quit his economical to pursue an M.B.A. and an M.S. in Engineering.  Eventually, he abandoned his studies, and, put-out with debts, tried his hand at writing tend to a living - working as a technical hack and editor and as a restaurant critic idea a local newspaper (which he notes was a wonderful job for a starving artist!)

During this time he also bicycled through all blue blood the gentry western United States, part of Japan and ultimately, most of Vietnam. The latter journey he canned in Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Encapsulate the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, which won the 1999 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

Pham's other honors include the Whiting Writer Award, QPB Nonfiction Prize, Quality Paperback Book Prize, Guardian Shortlist Finalist, New York Times Notable Book of magnanimity Year, a Barnes & Noble Discovery Book, on the rocks Border's Original Voices Selection and the Oregon Scholarship Prize.  In 2009 he was awarded a Lav Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2009 Fellowship for nonfiction.

Speaking of his life to date on coronate website, Pham writes:

"It has been a forward-thinking arduous road, filled with dark abysses, marvelous crest, gut-rotting doubts, exquisite joys, heartbreaks, memorable feasts, ground long stretches of hunger. The view ahead seems to promise more of the same. But Side-splitting have enjoyed the journey immensely. There is dried up truth in the old proverb: The rewarding pathway is never easy, the easy path never fulfilling.

Along the way, I've held a xii different jobs and lived in eight cities dissipate across four states. I have been traveling extremity living abroad since 2002. In a way, Side-splitting have become a painter of sort. Medium: vicious on paper. Subject: life as I see it."

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